crime and punishment in america by elliott currie

Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University: thanks especially to Lee Brown and Edward Djerejian for the opportunity to try them out. The same ideas appeared again later that year in a talk to the annual conference at the James A. Many of the ideas in these pages first surfaced as the Thirtieth Anniversary Lecture sponsored by the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) in London in 1996, and I’m most grateful to Helen Edwards and her staff for their hospitality. Special thanks to Sara Bershtel, Stephen Hubbell, and their colleagues at Metropolitan Books for their customary care and skill, and to John Brockman and Katinka Matson for their support. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify the publisher at: us./piracy. Copyright infringement is against the law. You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way. The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you for your personal use only. Cogent, compelling, and grounded in years of original research, this newly revised edition of Crime and Punishment in America will continue to frame the way we think about imprisonment for years to come. In this groundbreaking and revelatory work, renowned criminologist Elliott Currie offers a vivid critique of our nation's prison policies and turns his penetrating eye toward recent developments in criminal justice, showing us the path to a more peaceable and just society. Today, there are several hundred thousand more inmates in the penal system, yet violence remains endemic in many American communities. When Crime and Punishment in America was first published in 1998, the national incarceration rate had doubled in just over a decade, and yet the United States remained-by an overwhelming margin-the most violent industrialized society in the world.

'Earnest, free of jargon, lucid…This is a book that ought to be read by anyone concerned about crime and punishment in America.'-The Washington Post Book World

Crime and punishment in america by elliott currie