Ending Mass Incarceration: Why It Persists and How to Achieve Meaningful Reform

ISBN-13: 9780197536575 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str.

Beckett

Opis

Ending Mass Incarceration explores why mass incarceration is a failed public safety strategy and what should be done to bring about truly transformative change. Although policymakers on both the left and right now recognize mass incarceration as a problem rather than a solution, and many states have taken steps to reduce prison populations, the criminal legal response to crime is harsher than ever. This book identifies three key dynamics that are bolsteringmass incarceration. It also identifies three broad changes that would limit the power and reach of the criminal legal system while also addressing the social problems to which it is a misguided response.

Recenzje

This is the right book at the right time by the right author. Katherine Beckett has a keen understanding of the dynamics of criminal justice reform - both its strengths and weaknesses - as well as a sharp sense of what is necessary to correct misguided approaches in order to truly challenge mass incarceration. While policymakers and advocacy organizations both on the left and the right are congratulating themselves for the changing political environment on mass incarceration, Beckett carefully identifies the weaknesses and limitations of current reforms. Her analysis is very much on target. Marc Mauer, Senior Advisor to The Sentencing Project and co-author of The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences

O autorze

Katherine Beckett is Chair and Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice and S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. She is also a faculty associate and steering committee member of the University of Washington's Center for Human Rights. Her research analyzes the causes and consequences of changes in criminal law and punishment in the United States, with a particular focus on the role of race. She is the author of Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics and co-author of Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America and The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America. In 2019 she received the Dorsen Presidential Prize for lifetime contributions to research on civil liberties and civil rights from the American Civil Liberties Union.