The punishment imperative : the rise and failure of mass incarceration in America / Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost.

Over the last 35 years, the United States penal system has grown at a rate unprecedented in U.S. history, five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the rest of the world. This growth was part of a sustained and intentional effort to "get tough" on crime, and characte...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors:	Clear, Todd R. (Author), Frost, Natasha A., 1974- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Imprisonment > United States. Corrections > United States. Criminal justice, Administration of > United States. Corrections. Criminal justice, Administration of. Imprisonment. United States.