| Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime Revised Edition Contributor(s): Zimring, Franklin (Author), Hawkins, Gordon (Author) |
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ISBN: 019511583X ISBN-13: 9780195115833 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $80.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: In this first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation, the authors show the increasing reliance on restraint to justify imprisonment by analyzing the existing theories on incapacitation's effects, assessing the current empirical research, reporting a new study, and exploring the links between what is known about incapacitation and what it tells us about our criminal justice policy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 365.973 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.03" W x 9.11" (0.64 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The one, sure way that imprisonment prevents crime is by restraining offenders from committing crimes while they are locked up. Called incapacitation by experts in criminology, this effect has become the dominant justification for imprisonment in the United States, where well over a million persons are currently in jails and prisons and public figures who want to appear tough on crime periodically urge that we throw away the key. How useful is the modern prison in restraining crime, and at what cost? How much do we really know about incapacitation and its effectiveness? This book is the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation. Zimring and Hawkins show the increasing reliance on restraint to justify imprisonment, analyze the existing theories on incapacitation's effects, assess the current empirical research, report a new study, and explore the links between what is known about incapacitation and what it tells us about our criminal justice policy. An insightful evaluation of a pressing policy issue, Incapacitation is a vital contribution to the current debates on our criminal justice system. |