Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration by Rachel Elise Barkow
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Overview: America has the world’s highest rate of incarceration. It’s criminal justice policy reflects irrational fears stoked by politicians seeking to win elections. A preeminent legal scholar argues that reform guided by evidence, not politics and emotions, will reduce crime and reverse mass incarceration. Incarceration comes with social consequences―recycling offenders through an overwhelmed criminal justice system, ever-mounting costs, unequal treatment before the law, and a growing class of permanently criminalized citizens. It is a form of punishment that ruins lives and makes a return to prison more likely, as awful as that truth is for individuals, their families and society.
Barkow’s evaluation are rooted in a thorough and refreshingly ideology-free cost–benefit analysis of how to cut mass incarceration while maintaining public safety. She points to specific policies that are deeply problematic on moral grounds and have failed to end the cycle of recidivism. Her concrete proposals draw on the best empirical information available to prevent crime and improve the reentry of former prisoners into society.
Prisoners of Politics aims to free criminal justice policy from the political arena where it has repeatedly fallen prey to personal interest and irrational fears, and demonstrates that a few simple changes could make us all safer.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction Politics, American Politics, American Prison, American Prison System, Incarceration, Prison Business
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