Incarceration Nation

Incarceration Nation

How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World

Enns, Peter K. (Cornell University, New York)

Cambridge University Press

03/2016

184

Dura

Inglês

9781107132887

15 a 20 dias

The rise of mass incarceration in the United States is one of the most critical outcomes of the last half-century. This book offers the most compelling explanation of this outcome to date. This study is aimed at undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers interested in mass incarceration.
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.
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