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The future of imprisonment [electronic resource] / edited by Michael Tonry. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. - viii, 263 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Has the prison a future? / Michael Tonry -- 2. Crime, law, and the community: dynamics of incarceration in New York City / Jeffrey Fagan -- 3. Restoring rationality in punishment policy / Alfred Blumstein -- 4. Limiting retributivism / Richard S. Frase -- 5. Sentencing reform "reform" through sentencing information systems / Marc L. Miller -- 6. Democracy and the limits of punishment: a preface to prisoners' rights / Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins -- 7. Prison reform amid the ruins of prisoners' rights / James B. Jacobs -- 8. Questioning the conventional wisdom of parole release authority / Kevin R. Reitz -- 9. The future of violence risk management / John Monahan.


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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Prisons--United States.
Imprisonment--United States.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HV9471 / .F87 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 365/.973