Incapacitation
Subtitle: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 10, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780195115833
First sentence: Incapacitation now serves as the principal justification for imprisonment in American criminal justice: offenders are imprisoned in the United States to restrain them physically from offending again while they are confined.