Big Prisons, Big Dreams: Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System by Michael J. Lynch

Big Prisons, Big Dreams: Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System

Michael J. Lynch

274 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

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The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased. This doesn't surprise Michael J. Lynch, a critical criminologist, who argues that our oversized prison system is a product of ou...

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