num_pages: 240
description: 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.
language: English
title: Crime and Punishment in America
titlecomplete: Crime and Punishment in America
genres: Social Science, Nonfiction, Law, Adult, True Crime
ratings_count: 113
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Metropolitan Books