The Scale of Imprisonment

by Franklin E. Zimring

Book Overview

Two of the nation's foremost criminal justice scholars present a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the growth and subsequent overcrowding of American prisons. By critiquing the existing scholarship on prison scale from sociology and history to correctional forecasting and economics, they both reveal that explicit policy changes have had little influence on the increases in imprisonment in recent years and analyze whether it is possible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226983544
• ISBN13: 9780226983547
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"