TY  - GEN
AB  - Over two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this spectacular rise of the general prison population.After overseeing the largest city jail system in the country, Michael Jacobson knows first-hand the inner workings of the corrections system. In Downsizing Prisons, he convincingly argues that mass incarceration will not, as many have claimed, reduce crime nor create more public safety. Simply put, throwing away the key is not the answer.
AU  - Jacobson, Michael, 
CN  - HV9471
DO  - 10.18574/nyu/9780814743805.001.0001
DO  - doi
ID  - 1479777
JF  - New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
KW  - Alternatives to imprisonment
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Parole
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Probation
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
KW  - A.
KW  - City.
KW  - Commissioner.
KW  - Correction.
KW  - York.
KW  - argues.
KW  - former.
KW  - massive.
KW  - overhaul.
KW  - prison.
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814743805
N2  - Over two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this spectacular rise of the general prison population.After overseeing the largest city jail system in the country, Michael Jacobson knows first-hand the inner workings of the corrections system. In Downsizing Prisons, he convincingly argues that mass incarceration will not, as many have claimed, reduce crime nor create more public safety. Simply put, throwing away the key is not the answer.
SN  - 9780814743805
T1  - Downsizing Prisons :How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration /
TI  - Downsizing Prisons :How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814743805
ER  -