America behind bars
Subtitle: trends in imprisonment, 1950 to 2000
By: Rick Ruddell.
Series: Criminal justice; Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Imprisonment -- United States; Punishment -- United States; Social control -- United States; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mass imprisonment; title: Justice systems and punishment; title: Theories of formal social control; title: Prior imprisonment research; title: Economic, social, and political trends; title: Explaining imprisonment trends; title: The future of mass imprisonment.