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portada Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Year
1997
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
ISBN
019511583x
ISBN13
9780195115833

Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) (in English)

Franklin Zimring; Gordon Hawkins (Author) · Oxford University Press · Paperback

Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) (in English) - Franklin Zimring; Gordon Hawkins

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Synopsis "Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) (in English)"

The one, sure way that imprisonment prevents crime is by restraining offenders from committing crimes while they are locked up. Called "incapacitation" by experts in criminology, this effect has become the dominant justification for imprisonment in the United States, where well over a million persons are currently in jails and prisons and public figures who want to appear tough on crime periodically urge that we throw away the key. How useful is the modern prison in restraining crime, and at what cost? How much do we really know about incapacitation and its effectiveness? This book is the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation. Zimring and Hawkins show the increasing reliance on restraint to justify imprisonment, analyze the existing theories on incapacitation's effects, assess the current empirical research, report a new study, and explore the links between what is known about incapacitation and what it tells us about our criminal justice policy. An insightful evaluation of a pressing policy issue, Incapacitation is a vital contribution to the current debates on our criminal justice system.

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