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Our crowded prisons
- Title
- Our crowded prisons / special editor of this volume, Warren E. Burger ; National Institute of Corrections ; editorial consultant, Sean McConville.
- Publication
- Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1985.
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- Description
- 223 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 0002-7162 ; v. 478
- Uniform Title
- Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 478.
- Subject
- Note
- "March 1985"
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Incarceration in the United States : the extent and future of the problem / James Austin and Barry Krisberg -- Prison crowding and the evolution of public policy / Joan Mullen -- Jail crowding / Anne Bolduc -- Warehouses for people? / Hans Toch -- Home truths about prison overcrowding / Alonzo Cobb -- The economics of prison crowding / Gail S. Funke -- Prison overcrowding and the law / Claudia Angelos and James B. Jacobs -- Prison overcrowding : the law's dilemma / Edward M. Kennedy -- Charting a course for imprisonment policy / John P. Conrad -- Selective incapacitation? / Stephen D. Gottfredson and Don M. Gottfredson -- Reducing prison crowding and nonprison penalties / M. Kay Harris -- The national prison overcrowding project : policy analysis and politics, a new approach / Gerald Kaufman -- Prison resource management : working smarter, not harder / Carl B. Clements.
- ISBN
- 0803924348
- 9780803924345
- 0803924062
- 9780803924062
- LCCN
- 84051928
- OCLC
- ocm11870359
- 11870359
- SCSB-619930
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library