The politics of imprisonment : how the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders /
The attention devoted to the unprecedented levels of imprisonment in the United States obscure an obvious but understudied aspect of criminal justice: there is no consistent punishment policy across the U.S. It is up to individual states to administer their criminal justice systems, and the differen...
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Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2009
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Series: | Studies in crime and public policy.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |