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This major new volume of papers by leading criminologists, sociologists and historians, sets out what is known about the political and penological causes of the phenomenon of mass imprisonment. Mass imprisonment, American-style, involves the penal segregation of large numbers of the poor and minorities. Imprisonment has become a central institution for the social control of the urban poor. Other countries are now looking to the USA to see what should be learned from this massive and controversial social experiment. This book describes mass imprisonment's impact upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture. This is a book that all penologists and poli
Facts, Values and Prison Policies: A Commentary on Zimring and Tonry
Facts, Values and Prison Policies: A Commentary on Zimring and Tonry
The first part of Professor Franklin Zimring's article presents an important hypothesis that could and should itself be an article: that the US prison expansion of the last quarter century can be understood as three separate expansions, each driven by different independent variables. In presenting this hypothesis, Zimring focuses on national-level data and does not, as he has done elsewhere (Zimring and Hawkins, 1991) examine whether the hypothesis holds for each region and state. According to Zimring, the first expansion (1973–85) was caused by the influx of low-level offenders who previously would have received non-incarcerative sanctions. The second expansion (1985–92) is accounted for ...
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