The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences

by Committee on Law and Justice, National Research Council, Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration, et al.

Book Overview

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States more than quadrupled during the last four decades. The U.S. penal population of 2.2 million... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309298016
• ISBN13: 9780309298018
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"