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Decarcerating America : from mass punishment to public health /

Mass incarceration will end--there is an emerging consensus that we've been locking up too many people for too long. But with more than 2.2 million Americans behind bars right now, how do we go about bringing people home? Decarcerating America collects some of the leading thinkers in the crimin...

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Group Author: Drucker, Ernest M., 1940
Published: The New Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Imprisonment > United States
Prisons > Law and legislation > United States
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States
Punishment > United States
Correctional law > United States
Law reform > United States
Imprisonment > Social aspects > United States
Correctional law
Criminal justice, Administration of
Imprisonment
Imprisonment > Social aspects
Law reform
Prisons > Law and legislation
Punishment
United States
Summary: Mass incarceration will end--there is an emerging consensus that we've been locking up too many people for too long. But with more than 2.2 million Americans behind bars right now, how do we go about bringing people home? Decarcerating America collects some of the leading thinkers in the criminal justice reform movement to strategize about how to cure America of its epidemic of mass punishment.
Carrier Form: viii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781620972786 (hardcover) :
1620972786 (hardcover)
Index Number: KF9730
CLC: D971.267
Call Number: D971.267/D291
Contents: Ending mass incarceration : six bold reforms /
Better by half : the New York City story /
Lessons from California /
The role of judges /
Public defense and decarceration : advocacy on the front lines /
Making drug policy reform work for meaningful decarceration /
Transforming our responses to violence /
Minimizing the impact of

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