Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
By Unknown Author.
Description
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 modern prison in restraining crime, and at what cost? How much do we really know about incapacitation and its effectiveness? This boo...
ISBN(s)
019511583X, 9780195115833
