Unraveling mass incarceration: Criminology's role in the policy process
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Unraveling mass incarceration: Criminology's role in the policy process*
In this address I argue that large reductions in unproductive and unjust uses of imprisonment requires curtailment of the over use of life imprisonment. I go on to discuss how criminologists should engage the policy process to achieve material reductions in prison populations ...
Published onJan 23, 2022
Unraveling mass incarceration: Criminology's role in the policy process*
Abstract
In this address I argue that large reductions in unproductive and unjust uses of imprisonment requires curtailment of the over use of life imprisonment. I go on to discuss how criminologists should engage the policy process to achieve material reductions in prison populations by the accumulation of many incremental reductions in the overuse of incarceration.
