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Do prisons make us safer? : the benefits and costs of the prison boom / Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll, editors.

Raphael, Steven, 1968-; Stoll, Michael A.
2009
HV9469 .D75 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Do prisons make us safer? : the benefits and costs of the prison boom / Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll, editors.
ISBN
9780871548603 (alk. paper)
0871548607 (alk. paper)
Published
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
Description
x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
HV9469 .D75 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
365/.973
Summary
"Do Prisons Make Us Safer? asks whether it makes sense to maintain such a large and costly prison system. The contributors expand the scope of previous analyses to Include a number of underexplored dimensions, such as the fiscal impact on states, effects on children, and employment prospects for former inmates." "The United States currently imprisons a greater proportion of its citizens than any other nation in the world. Until now, however, we have lacked systematic and comprehensive data on how this prison boom has affected families, communities, and our nation as a whole. Do Prisons Make Us Safer? provides a highly nuanced and deeply engaging account of one of the most dramatic policy developments in recent U.S. history."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Raphael, Steven, 1968-
Stoll, Michael A.
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Why are so many Americans in prison? / Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll
The origins of mass incarceration in New York State : the Rockefeller drug laws and the local war on drugs / David F. Weiman and Christopher Weiss
The impact of prison on crime / Shawn D. Bushway and Raymond Paternoster
The people prisons make : the effects of incarceration on criminal psychology / Amy E. Lerman
Ever-increasing levels of parental incarceration and the consequences for children / Rucker C. Johnson
Footing the bill : causes and budgetary consequences of state spending on corrections / John W. Ellwood and Joshua Guetzkow
Collateral costs : effects of incarceration on employment and earnings among young workers / Harry J. Holzer
Assessing the relative benefits of incarceration : overall changes and the benefits on the margin / John J. Donohue III.

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