@article{865794,
      author = {Barkow, Rachel E.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/865794},
      title = {Prisoners of politics : breaking the cycle of mass  incarceration /},
      abstract = {America has the highest incarceration rate in the world  among major nations not because of expert assessments of  how to tackle crime, but because of piecemeal emotional  reactions in jurisdictions throughout the United States to  high-profile crimes and public fear. The results have been  predictably bad: policies that bust government budgets and  devastate individual lives and communities but do nothing  to promote public safety. To break this cycle and get  better policies, we can no longer set criminal justice  policies based on the whims of the electorate. We should  instead follow the model we have used in so many other  areas of life that has improved public health and safety by  relying on expert knowledge. Prisoners of Politics offers a  new institutional framework for addressing criminal justice  policy that is designed to rely on data instead of stories,  on expertise instead of emotion.--},
      recid = {865794},
      pages = {291 pages ;},
}