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Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime

Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime

Paperback

Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy

Criminology

ISBN10: 019511583X
ISBN13: 9780195115833
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 3 1997
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.11
Language: English
The one, sure way that imprisonment prevents crime is by restraining offenders from committing crimes while they are locked up. Called incapacitation by experts in criminology, this effect has become the dominant justification for imprisonment in the United States, where well over a million persons are currently in jails and prisons and public figures who want to appear tough on crime periodically urge that we throw away the key. How useful is the modern prison in restraining crime, and at what cost? How much do we really know about incapacitation and its effectiveness?

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