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_qalkaline paper
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050 0 0 _aHV9950
_b.B358 2019
100 1 _aBarkow, Rachel E.,
245 1 0 _aPrisoners of politics :
_bbreaking the cycle of mass incarceration /
_cRachel Elise Barkow.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
_c2019.
264 4 _c©2019.
300 _a291 pages ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aMisleading monikers -- Senseless sentencing -- Counterproductive confinement -- Obsolete outcomes -- Collateral calamities -- Populist politics -- Institutional intransigence -- Policing prosecutors -- Engaging experts -- Catalyzing courts.
520 _aAmerica has the highest incarceration rate in the world among major nations not because of expert assessments of how to tackle crime, but because of piecemeal emotional reactions in jurisdictions throughout the United States to high-profile crimes and public fear. The results have been predictably bad: policies that bust government budgets and devastate individual lives and communities but do nothing to promote public safety. To break this cycle and get better policies, we can no longer set criminal justice policies based on the whims of the electorate. We should instead follow the model we have used in so many other areas of life that has improved public health and safety by relying on expert knowledge. Prisoners of Politics offers a new institutional framework for addressing criminal justice policy that is designed to rely on data instead of stories, on expertise instead of emotion.--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aCriminal justice, Administration of
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCriminal justice, Administration of
_xPlanning
_zUnited States.
999 _c236479
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