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Special issue of Criminology & Public Policy examines mass incarceration and targeted policing

By Douglas A. Berman

I was pleased this weekend to discover that the February 2011 issue of Criminology & Public Policy is devoted to the idea that society would be well served to reallocate resources from mass incarceration to targeted policing.   Here is the start from the editor's introduction to the issue authored by Richard Rosenfeld: Mass incarceration is the criminological issue of our time. A close contender is so-called hot-spots policing.  The former invites condemnation from most criminologists.  The latter inspires confidence that smart policing can reduce crime. In their provocative and important paper that is the focus of this special issue of Criminology & Public Policy, Steven Durlauf and Daniel Nagin (2011) bring the two issues together and propose that we might be able to achieve crime reductions by shortening prison sentences and using the cost savings to support more and better policing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 21, 2011 (boomark / email).