| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. Has the prison a future? / Michael Tonry -- 2. Crime, law, and the community: dynamics of incarceration in New York City / Jeffrey Fagan -- 3. Restoring rationality in punishment policy / Alfred Blumstein -- 4. Limiting retributivism / Richard S. Frase -- 5. Sentencing reform "reform" through sentencing information systems / Marc L. Miller -- 6. Democracy and the limits of punishment: a preface to prisoners' rights / Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins -- 7. Prison reform amid the ruins of prisoners' rights / James B. Jacobs -- 8. Questioning the conventional wisdom of parole release authority / Kevin R. Reitz -- 9. The future of violence risk management / John Monahan. |
| Summary |
"The Future of Imprisonment" unites some of the leading prison and penal policy scholars of our time to address fundamental questions. Inspired by the work of Norval Morris, the contributors look back to the past twenty-five years of penal policy in an effort to look forward to the prison's twenty-first century future. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prisons -- United States.
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Prisons. |
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United States. |
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Imprisonment -- United States.
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Imprisonment. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Tonry, Michael H.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Future of imprisonment. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 0195161637 (DLC) 2003007644 (OCoLC)54767091 |
| ISBN |
9780198036593 (electronic book) |
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0198036590 (electronic book) |
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1602569606 |
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9781602569607 |
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0195161637 (Cloth) |
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9780195161632 (Cloth) |
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1280532726 |
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9781280532726 |
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