The Scale of Imprisonment

By: Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon J. Hawkins

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Paperback | 1 September 1993 | Edition Number 1

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258 Pages

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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, analysis, and critique of research is stimulating and inventive."-American Political Science Review

"The authors fram our thoughts about the soaring use of imprisonment and stimulate our thinking about the best way we as criminologists can conduct rational analysis and provide meaningful advice."-Susan Guarino-Ghezzi, Journal of Quantitative Criminology

"Zimring and Hawkins bring a long tradition of excellent criminological scholarship to the seemingly intractable problems of prisons, prison overcrowding, and the need for alternative forms of punishment."-J. C. Watkins, Jr., Choice

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Issue of Scale
Imprisonment as a Social Process
Imprisonment as Historical Process
Imprisonment as a Natural Outcome: The Art or Craft of Correctional Forecasting
Imprisonment as a Policy Tool: Prescriptive Approaches
The American Experience
Five Theories in Search of the Facts
Fifty-One Different Countries: State and Regional Experience
Policy or Process?
Decarceration Policies and Their Impact
Toward a Political Economy of Imprisonment
References
Index
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