Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World

ISBN-13: 9781316500613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 184 str.

Peter Enns

Opis

Incarceration Nation demonstrates that the US public played a critical role in the rise of mass incarceration in this country.

Recenzje

'It is said every society gets the criminals it deserves, but we get the justice system that we want. In this highly impressive new book, Peter Enns demonstrates precisely this: the growth of the incarceration nation was no accident and we are all implicated. The good news is that public opinion is changing dramatically on this issue. Enns's important analysis gives me great hope that if we can build it, we can also knock it down.' Shadd Maruna, Dean, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. A forgiving or a punitive public?; 3. Who led whom?; 4. Explaining the public's punitiveness; 5. Democracy at work? Public opinion and mass incarceration; 6. Punitive politics in the states; 7. Conclusion.