Bibliograph

Mass Incarceration on Trial, America's Courts and the Future of Imprisonment

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Mass Incarceration on Trial, America's Courts and the Future of Imprisonment

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mass Incarceration on Trial

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

880825226

Sub title

America's Courts and the Future of Imprisonment

Summary

Once the home of the most progressive prison system in the United States, California has now become the most extreme example of mass incarceration since the 1980s. In this inspired and original work, prize-winning criminal justice author Jonathan Simon argues that California provides a crucial window for learning what has gone wrong with American justice. The Supreme Court's recent 5-4 ruling in the landmark Brown v. Plata case, a culmination of more than twenty years of litigation about medical and mental health care in California's massive prison system, guarantees that Californi

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Total Incapacitation; 2 The House of Fear; 3 Engines of Madness; 4 Torture on the Installment Plan; 5 Places of Extreme Peril; 6 Dignity Cascade; 7 The New Common Sense of High- Crime Societies; Notes; Index

Target audience

adult

Classification

Contributor