The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences by Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration, Committee on Law and Justice, National Research Council

The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences

Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration, Committee on Law and Justice, National Research Council

444 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States more than quadrupled during the last four decades. The U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world. Just...

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