Ending Overcriminalization and Mass Incarceration: Hope from Civil Society

ISBN-13: 9781108446297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 230 str.

Anthony B. Bradley

Opis

Personalism points to reforming criminal justice from the person up by changing criminal law and enlisting civil society institutions.

Recenzje

'… Ending Overcriminalization and Mass Incarceration is a good introduction to the issue of mass incarceration … the book challenges readers to focus on the person affected by not just the policies but the civil society that surrounds them.' M. Beth Valentine, Rutgers

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. An overcriminalized America; 2. A closer loser look at prosecutors; 3. Giving judges more discretion; 4. Defending the disadvantaged; 5. Ending the school-to-prison pipeline; 6. The social, moral, and economic costs of overcriminalization; 7. Progress begins at the state level; 8. Help and hope from civil society; Conclusion.