Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie

Crime and Punishment in America

Elliott Currie

240 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative slow-paced
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There are five times as many Americans behind bars today as in 1970. The national incarceration rate in 1997 was twice that in 1985. California's prison system has become the third largest in the world. And despite some limited recent declines in ...

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