Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:019511583X
ISBN13:9780195115833
Release Date:April 1997
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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