The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences by Committee on Law and Justice, National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Scienc

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

Committee on Law and Justice, National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Scienc

444 pages paperback 2014

2 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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