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: Sentencing Law and Policy

"Explaining the imprisonment epidemic"

By Douglas A. Berman

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The title of this post is the title of this editorial introcution to this issue of the February 2009 issue of Criminology & Public Policy. Here are the other articles on imprisonment in this issue: Crime, cash, and limited options: Explaining the prison boom by William Spelman Modern time-series methods and the dynamics of prison populations by Michael Murray Explaining the rise in U.S. incarceration rates by Stephen Raphael Money and mass incarceration: The bad, the mad, and penal reform by Marie Gottschal

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 15, 2009 (boomark / email).

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