Criminal Justice
Subtitle: Retribution vs. Restoration
Contributors: Eleanor Hannon Judah (Editor); Michael Bryant (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Social Work
Published: July 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780789000613
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Rehabilitation; Criminals; Social Science; Sociology; United States; Criminology; Criminal justice, Administration of; Criminal justice, Administrati; Punishment
First sentence: SUMMARY. Over the past three decades, the United States has been engaged in an unprecedented expansion of its prison system, with the national inmate population rising from just over 300,000 in 1972 to nearly two million today.