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Michael (Hrsg.) Tonry

The Future of Imprisonment

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The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years ago as a humanitarian reform, a substitutefor capital and corporal punishment and banishment. So what went wrong? How can prisons be made simultaneously more effective and more humane? Who should be sent there in the first place? What should happen to them while they are inside? When, how, and under what conditions should they bereleased? The Future of Imprisonment unites some of the leading pr… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-531410-6
  • EAN: 9780195314106
  • Produktnummer: 22680440
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 408 g
  • Abbildungen: 8 halftones
  • Gewicht: 408

Über den Autor


Michael Tonry is one of the nation's most respected experts on crime and punishment. The author of the highly acclaimed Malign Neglect and (with Norval Morris) Between Prison and Probation, he is director of the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, and Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. He has worked as an advisor to federal and state agencies in the United States, Australia andCanada, to national governments in Europe, and to international organizations. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Alfred Blumstein Jeffrey Fagin Richard S. Frase James Jacobs Marc Miller John Monahan Kevin R. Reitz Michael Tonry Franklin E. Zimring

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