"Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and you're out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a th...
Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins, Sam Kamin
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256
Oxford University Press
0195171179
9780195171174
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Literary Nonfiction. Biography. Canadian History. California Interest. This biography of Amor De Cosmos explores the life and career of this most eccentric of Canadian politicians, a man who played a crucial role in the creation of present-day Canada from sea to sea, and yet who, by the end of his l...
Gordon Hawkins
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160
Ronsdale Press
1553803531
9781553803539
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The death penalty is not simply the most serious criminal punishment. It has been a singular social, legal, and moral problem in the Western world over the past two hundred years. Capital punishment is disappearing from every nation in the West except the United States. No political science of capit...
Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins
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212
Cambridge University Press
052137863X
9780521378635
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Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins's first premise is that our criminal justice system is a moral busybody, unwisely extended beyond its proper role of protecting persons and property. But they go further and systematically cover the amount, costs, causes, and victims of crime: the reduction of violen...
Norval Morris, Gordon J. Hawkins
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279
University of Chicago Press
0226539024
9780226539027
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Two of the nation's foremost criminal justice scholars present a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the growth and subsequent overcrowding of American prisons. By critiquing the existing scholarship on prison scale from sociology and history to correctional forecasting and economics, the...
Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon J. Hawkins
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258
University of Chicago Press
0226983544
9780226983547
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"For a few decades American prisons were the wonder of the world. [However] early hopes that a prison regime could be a powerful means of reforming most convicts have been abandoned, and prisons are seen even by some of those who think we need more of them as savage repositories, to be shunned or ve...
Gordon J. Hawkins, Michael Sherman
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153
University of Chicago Press
0226752801
9780226752808
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Despite lethal explosions of violence from within and critical assaults from without, it seems certain that prisons will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. Gordon Hawkins argues that certain key issues which attend the use of imprisonment as a penal method must be dealt with realistically...
Gordon J. Hawkins
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225
University of Chicago Press
0226320006
9780226320007
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The one, sure way that imprisonment prevents crime is by restraining offenders from committing crimes while they are locked up. Called "incapacitation" by experts in criminology, this effect has become the dominant justification for imprisonment in the United States, where well over a million person...
Franklin Zimring, Gordon Hawkins
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208
Oxford University Press
019511583X
9780195115833
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