Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime

by Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins

Book Overview

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 figures who want to appear tough on crime periodically urge that we throw away the key. How useful is the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019511583X
• ISBN13: 9780195115833
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"