Mass Incarceration On Trial

Prisons Before the Constitution

Jonathan Simon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

214 Seiten

2014
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-59558-769-5 (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 most recent book, Governing through Crime, won the American Sociology Association’s 2008 Sociology of Law Distinguished Book Award and the 2010 Hindelang Prize of the American Society of Criminology. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.9.2014
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 216 mm
Gewicht	368 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-59558-769-1 / 1595587691
ISBN-13	978-1-59558-769-5 / 9781595587695
Zustand	Neuware