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

by Katherine Beckett

Why mass incarceration endures in the face of reforms, and how to truly change America's vast criminal justice system

Critics on both the left and the right increasingly use the term "mass incarceration" to call attention to the unprecedented scale and inequities of the U.S. criminal legal system, and the havoc it wreaks. But even as lawmakers begin to embrace criminal justice reform, the criminal legal response to crime...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197536573
• ISBN13: 9780197536575
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 8.7"