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The Scale of Imprisonment

The Scale of Imprisonment

Zimring, Franklin E.
Hawkins, Gordon J.

Paperback

Series: Studies in Crime and Justice

Criminology

ISBN10: 0226983544
ISBN13: 9780226983547
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Sep 1 1993
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
Two of the nation's foremost criminal justice scholars present a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the growth and subsequent overcrowding of American prisons. By critiquing the existing scholarship on prison scale from sociology and history to correctional forecasting and economics, they both reveal that explicit policy changes have had little influence on the increases in imprisonment in recent years and analyze whether it is possible to place limits effectively on prison population.

The Scale of Imprisonment has an exceptionally well designed literature review of interest to public policy, criminal justice, and public law scholars. Its careful review, analysis, and critique of research is stimulating and inventive.--American Political Science Review

The authors fram our thoughts about the soaring use of imprisonment and stimulate our thinking about the best way we as criminologists can conduct rational analysis and provide meaningful advice.--Susan Guarino-Ghezzi, Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Zimring and Hawkins bring a long tradition of excellent criminological scholarship to the seemingly intractable problems of prisons, prison overcrowding, and the need for alternative forms of punishment.--J. C. Watkins, Jr., Choice

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