Crime and Punishment in America
Elliott Currie
There are five times as many Americans behind bars today as in 1970, yet we remain the most violent industrial society on earth. This hard-hitting and accessible book dissects the myths that have given us both the industrial world's most swollen prison population and its highest rate of violent crime.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Metropolitan Books
- Year
- 1998
- ISBN-13
- 9780805048353
- Genre
- Politics & Current Affairs
- Topics
- Criminal justice systemMass incarcerationViolent crime
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1999)
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