The insidious momentum of American mass incarceration

The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is still a public policy mystery. Why did it happen when it happened? What explains the unprecedented magnitude of prison and jail expansion? Why are the current levels of penal confinement s...

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Main Author: Zimring, Franklin E.,
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Series: Oxford scholarship online.
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