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Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
Incapacitation Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime - Studies in Crime and Public Policy
Author: Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins
The one, sure way that imprisonment prevents crime is by restraining offenders from committing crimes while they are locked up. Called "incapacitation" by experts in criminology, this effect has become the dominant justification for imprisonment in the United States, where well over a million persons are currently in jails and prisons and public...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195092332
ISBN-10: 0195092333
Publication Date: 2/9/1995
Pages: 188
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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