Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarcerationand How to Achieve Real Reform
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (732 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1541460804 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 199 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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He describes a fractured criminal justice system, in which counties don't pay for the people they send to state prisons, and in which white suburbs set law and order agendas for more-heavily minority cities. Pfaff urges us to look at other factors instead, including a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony charges against arrestees about twice as often as they had before. Having spent fifteen years studying the data on imprisonment, John Pfaff takes apart the reigning consensus created by Michelle Alexander and other reformers, revealing that the most widely accepted explanations-the failed War on Drugs, dracon
Pfaff is a professor of law at Fordham Law School. John F. He can be heard on TV and radio voicing spots for Airborne and Allegra. His voice is youthful, easy-flowing, and flexible, and lends itself to many different types of storytelling. . His work on mass incarceration, prosecutors, and criminal justice reform has been covered in the Economist, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Tim
Pfaff analyzes why America incarcerates more people than ever even as crime rates continue to fall he also makes a compelling case that incarceration disrupts the lives of the incarcerated and their families long after they have served their time." ---Wall Street Journal . "In the extremely important book, Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform, John F