America Behind Bars
Subtitle: Trends in Imprisonment, 1950-2000 (Criminal Justice, Recent Scholarship)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing
Published: September 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781593320577
Subjects: Prisons; Punishment; Political Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; United States; Social control; Penology; Public Policy - Cultural Policy; Criminal justice, Administrati; Imprisonment
First sentence: At yearend 2002, there were 2.1 million inmates residing within American jails and prisons (Harrison and Beck, 2003), in addition to a farther 4.7 million individuals under some form of community controleither on probation or parole (Glaze, 2003).