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The punishment imperative : the rise and failure of mass incarceration in America
- Author
- Clear, Todd R., author.
- Title
- The punishment imperative : the rise and failure of mass incarceration in America / Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : New York University Press, [2014]
- Description
- xi, 258 pages ; 24 cm
- Other contributors
- Frost, Natasha A., 1974- author.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- The beginning of the end of the punishment imperative
- The contours of mass incarceration
- The punishment imperative as a grand social experiment
- The policies of the punishment imperative
- Two views on the objectives of the punishment imperative
- Assessing the punishment imperative
- Dismantling the punishment imperative.
- Subject headings
- Imprisonment--United States. Corrections--United States. Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
- ISBN
- 9780814717196 (cloth : alk. paper) 0814717195 (cloth : alk. paper)