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21%OFFFranklin E. Zimring - The Scale of Imprisonment - 9780226983547 - V9780226983547
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The Scale of Imprisonment

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Description for The Scale of Imprisonment Paperback. Series: Studies in Crime & Justice. Num Pages: 264 pages, 21 tables, 14 line drawings. BIC Classification: JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
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, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Crime & Justice
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226983547
SKU
V9780226983547
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