Prison State - The Challenge of Mass Incarceration

Informationen zum Autor Bert Useem is Professor of Sociology at Purdue University, Indiana. He previously taught sociology at University of New Mexico and was Director of the Institute for Social Research there. He is author of Resolution of Prison Riots: Strategy and Policies (with Camille Camp and George Camp, 1996) and States of Siege: US Prison Riots, 1971–1986 (with Peter A. Kimball, 1989). Anne Morrison Piehl is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University, New Jersey and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She previously taught public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Massachusetts. She has been published widely in journals in economics, law, criminology, sociology, and public policy. Klappentext This book examines the recent prison buildup and its impact on American society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The buildup to mass incarceration; 2. Causes of the prison buildup; 3. More prison, less crime?; 4. Prison buildup and disorder; 5. The buildup and inmate release; 6. Implications of the buildup for labor markets; 7. Conclusion: right-sizing prison.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Morrison Piehl, Anne Morrison Piehl, Bert Useem, Bert Piehl Useem, Useem Bert
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.03.2008
• EAN: 9780521713399
• ISBN: 978-0-521-71339-9
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo; Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, Economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Crime & criminology, Penology and punishment