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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. This book is the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation. Zimring and ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195115833
ISBN-10: 019511583X
Publication Date: 3/10/1997
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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