Doing Justice, Preventing Crime

by Michael H Tonry and Michael H. Tonry

Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust. The financial costs are enormous. The moral cost is greater: countless individual injustices, mass incarceration, the world's highest imprisonment rate, extreme disparities, especially affecting members of racial and ethnic minority groups, high rates of wrongful conviction, assembly line case processing, and a general absence of respectful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195320506
• ISBN13: 9780195320503
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"