Locked in : the true causes of mass incarceration -- and how to achieve real reform /
Pfaff argues that existing accounts of the causes of mass incarceration are fundamentally misguided. The most widely accepted explanations--the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons -- actually tell us much less than we like to think. Instead, Pfaf...
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New York, NY :
Basic Books,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : American exceptionalism
- The Standard Story. The war on drugs
- A brief history of time (served)
- Private prisons, public spending
- Costs of the standard story
- A New Narrative. The man behind the curtain
- The broken politics of punishment
- The third rail : Violent offenses
- Quo vadis?
- Conclusion