Mass Incarceration On Trial

A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

Jonathan Simon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2016
The New Press (Verlag)
9781620972540 (ISBN)

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For nearly 40 years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading. Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a series of landmark decisions about prison conditions that has opened an unexpected escape route from this trap of 'tough on crime' politics. This set of rulings points toward values that could restore legitimate order to American prisons and lead to the end of mass incarceration.

Jonathan Simon is the Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. His book Governing Through Crime won the American Sociology Association's 2008 Sociology of Law Distinguished Book Award. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2016
Sprache	englisch
Maße	134 x 200 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
ISBN-13	9781620972540 / 9781620972540
Zustand	Neuware