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Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State : How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons - Cambridge Studies in Criminology
Author: Malcolm M. Feeley, Edward L. Rubin
Between 1965 and 1990, federal judges in almost all of the states handed down sweeping rulings that affected virtually every prison and jail in the United States. Without a doubt judges were the most important prison reformers during this period. This book provides an account of this process, and uses it to explore the more general issue of the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521777346
ISBN-10: 0521777348
Publication Date: 3/28/2000
Pages: 506
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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