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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
0465096913
ISBN-13
9780465096916
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221451637
Product Key Features
Book Title
Locked in : the True Causes of Mass Incarceration-And How to Achieve Real Reform
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Law Enforcement, General, Penology, Criminology, Criminal Law / Sentencing
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Political Science, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-037701
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LOCKED IN "A thorough and demanding examination of a problem that has no easy solutions and a challenge to policymakers to discard prior notions about the nature of the problem and the needed reforms." -- Kirkus Reviews "With rigor and specificity John Pfaff sifts through the data to mount a convincing case about the causes of mass incarceration and the levers by which we can undo it. A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world's most imprisoned nation." -- Chris Hayes "Provocative and packed with data, Locked In will change how you think about what's wrong with the criminal justice system and how to fix it. A book that will be instantly integral to solving one of the country's most important challenges." -- Emily Bazelon, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale University, and author of Sticks and Stones, "In the extremely important book, Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform , John F. Pfaff analyzes why America incarcerates more people than ever even as crime rates continue to fall... [he] also makes a compelling case that incarceration disrupts the lives of the incarcerated and their families long after they have served their time." -- Wall Street Journal, "In Locked In , Pfaff plays a Socrates of criminal justice reform, interrogating all the main tenets of the Standard Story and eviscerating them with scores of data." --Pacific Standard, "The significant political and practical challenges of transforming society's response to violence may help explain why voters and politicians cling to the myth that prisons will empty out if we simply reduce penalties for nonviolent drug crimes. The road of reform laid out by Pfaff and Forman is a relatively harder one to walk. But if the desired destination is an end to mass incarceration, it's the only way to get there." -- Washington Post ( Wonkblog ) "A succinct, powerful explanation of why much of what we think about the incarceration boom is probably wrong." --Bloomberg View "An important new book." --Washington Monthly, "A valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion about justice reform... Packed with charts and figures, it's candy to the numbers-loving brain, but even those who weary of statistics are sure to find some interesting tidbits... Peppered throughout are fascinating details about our justice system that you probably won't find elsewhere... Maybe it's time to stop arguing about who broke America. LOCKED IN gives us some ideas for how we might fix it." --National Review "Provocative... Pfaff challenges readers to consider the trade-offs between safety and enforcement and the real costs and benefits to incarcerating the 2 million people we do in the United States today. Packed with information and statistics, with criticisms and solutions, Locked In is a fresh, welcome contribution to the criminal-justice debate." --National Review Online "[Pfaff's] exacting prose meticulously explores every data set and perspective... [he] constructs a new narrative, focusing attention on four dimensions of criminal justice too frequently overlooked: local criminal justice systems, the role of prosecutors, the failed politics of punitive punishment and violent offenders... required reading for students, citizens, activists and policy reformers interested in excavating how our system of hyper-incarceration was constructed incrementally over decades." --America Magazine, "Timely and authoritative, Pfaff's discussion of mass incarceration provides a valuable and accessible addition to the prison reform narrative and an excellent analysis of the U.S. criminal justice system." -- Library Journal, "An excellent overview of where America stands in regard to its prisons, and Pfaff's proposed reforms deserve serious consideration across the political spectrum." -- American Conservative, "Pfaff, let there be no doubt, is a reformer...Nonetheless, he believes that the standard story-popularized in particular by Michelle Alexander, in her influential book, The New Jim Crow -is false. We are desperately in need of reform, he insists, but we must reform the right things, and address the true problem."-- Adam Gopnik , The New Yorker, "With rigor and specificity, John Pfaff sifts through the data to mount a convincing case about the causes of mass incarceration and the levers by which we can undo it. A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world's most imprisoned nation." -- Chris Hayes , host of All In with Chris Hayes and author of A Colony in a Nation, "A thorough and demanding examination of a problem that has no easy solutions and a challenge to policymakers to discard prior notions about the nature of the problem and the needed reforms."-- Kirkus Reviews, "A refreshing look at the causes of mass incarceration, and is a must-read for anyone involved in the criminal justice reform movement. You may not agree with everything that Pfaff argues, but you will finish the book with a better understanding of the complexity of the problem and the need for solutions." --New York Journal of Books, "To those asking why the United States imprisons so many of its people, the answers and hints of possible reform are here."-- Los Angeles Review of Books, "With rigor and specificity, John Pfaff sifts through the data to mount a convincing case about the causes of mass incarceration and the levers by which we can undo it. A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world's most imprisoned nation." --Chris Hayes, host of All In with Chris Hayes and author of A Colony in a Nation, "Required reading for students, citizens, activists and policy reformers interested in excavating how our system of hyper-incarceration was constructed incrementally over decades."-- America Magazine, Pfaff offers a trove of evidence that [the 'standard story' of mass incarceration] is by and large wrong or, at the very least, misses much of the real story. -- Vox|9780465096916|, ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LOCKED IN "A thorough and demanding examination of a problem that has no easy solutions and a challenge to policymakers to discard prior notions about the nature of the problem and the needed reforms." -- Kirkus Reviews "With rigor and specificity John Pfaff sifts through the data to mount a convincing case about the causes of mass incarceration and the levers by which we can undo it. A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world's most imprisoned nation." -- Chris Hayes "Provocative and packed with data, Locked In will change how you think about what's wrong with the criminal justice system and how to fix it. A book that will be instantly integral to solving one of the country's most important challenges." -- Emily Bazelon, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale University, and author of Sticks and Stones "In Locked In , John Pfaff delivers a brilliant lesson in myth-busting that anyone interested in reform of our criminal justice system must heed. Our mass incarceration crisis is not chiefly due to an unholy alliance of legislatures and police in carrying out the War on Drugs, nor is it true that a massive share of American prisoners are 'nonviolent drug offenders.' Combining his lawyer's understanding of institutional practice with an economist's cold-eyed commitment to empirical fact, Pfaff points us to other causes, and the key one is a nationwide phenomenon of prosecutors filing felony charges and seeking longer sentences, often de facto life sentences, for violent crimes that were once treated more sensibly. The powerful lesson is that rational cost-benefit analysis can be a partner to human decency in redeeming lives that still hold promise, and in ending our status as an embarrassing international anomaly." -- Professor Robert Weisberg, co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center " Locked In is a game changer for those who care about the crisis of mass incarceration. John Pfaff's virtuosic effort explodes what he calls the 'Standard Story,' showing us that the morally satisfying answers to questions about mass incarceration are usually wrong and that the solutions are almost always more banal--making them harder to accomplish. Most importantly, Locked In is not satisfied with providing this new and compelling framework for understanding why America locks up more people than any other nation in history. It goes further to provide concrete solutions that should be part of any roadmap for reform. If you want to change how we imprison people, you have to read this book!" -- Phillip Atiba Goff, President of the Center for Policing Equity and Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, "A refreshing look at the causes of mass incarceration, and is a must-read for anyone involved in the criminal justice reform movement. You may not agree with everything that Pfaff argues, but you will finish the book with a better understanding of the complexity of the problem and the need for solutions." -- New York Journal of Books, "In the extremely important book, Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform , John F. Pfaff analyzes why America incarcerates more people than ever even as crime rates continue to fall... [he] also makes a compelling case that incarceration disrupts the lives of the incarcerated and their families long after they have served their time." --Wall Street Journal "To those asking why the United States imprisons so many of its people, the answers and hints of possible reform are here." --Los Angeles Review of Books, "[Pfaff] makes a powerful case that the war on drugs has had very little effect on incarceration rates overall, or racial disparities in prison more specifically."-- New York Review of Books, "An important new book." -Washington Monthly "With rigor and specificity John Pfaff sifts through the data to mount a convincing case about the causes of mass incarceration and the levers by which we can undo it. A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world's most imprisoned nation." -Chris Hayes, "A valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion about justice reform... Packed with charts and figures, it's candy to the numbers-loving brain, but even those who weary of statistics are sure to find some interesting tidbits... Peppered throughout are fascinating details about our justice system that you probably won't find elsewhere... Maybe it's time to stop arguing about who broke America. Locked In gives us some ideas for how we might fix it."-- National Review, "Timely and authoritative, Pfaff's discussion of mass incarceration provides a valuable and accessible addition to the prison reform narrative and an excellent analysis of the U.S. criminal justice system." -Library Journal "A thorough and demanding examination of a problem that has no easy solutions and a challenge to policymakers to discard prior notions about the nature of the problem and the needed reforms." -Kirkus Reviews, "A succinct, powerful explanation of why much of what we think about the incarceration boom is probably wrong."-- Bloomberg View, "Provocative and packed with data, Locked In will change how you think about what's wrong with the criminal justice system and how to fix it. A book that will be instantly integral to solving one of the country's most important challenges." -- Emily Bazelon, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale University , and author of Sticks and Stones, " Locked In is a game changer for those who care about the crisis of mass incarceration. John Pfaff's virtuosic effort explodes what he calls the 'Standard Story,' showing us that the morally satisfying answers to questions about mass incarceration are usually wrong and that the solutions are almost always more banal-making them harder to accomplish. Most importantly, Locked In is not satisfied with providing this new and compelling framework for understanding why America locks up more people than any other nation in history. It goes further to provide concrete solutions that should be part of any roadmap for reform. If you want to change how we imprison people, you have to read this book!" --Phillip Atiba Goff, President of the Center for Policing Equity and Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, "In Locked In , John Pfaff delivers a brilliant lesson in myth-busting that anyone interested in reform of our criminal justice system must heed. Our mass incarceration crisis is not chiefly due to an unholy alliance of legislatures and police in carrying out the War on Drugs, nor is it true that a massive share of American prisoners are 'nonviolent drug offenders.' Combining his lawyer's understanding of institutional practice with an economist's cold-eyed commitment to empirical fact, Pfaff points us to other causes, and the key one is a nationwide phenomenon of prosecutors filing felony charges and seeking longer sentences, often de facto life sentences, for violent crimes that were once treated more sensibly. The powerful lesson is that rational cost-benefit analysis can be a partner to human decency in redeeming lives that still hold promise, and in ending our status as an embarrassing international anomaly." --Professor Robert Weisberg, co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, "In Locked In , John Pfaff delivers a brilliant lesson in myth-busting that anyone interested in reform of our criminal justice system must heed. Our mass incarceration crisis is not chiefly due to an unholy alliance of legislatures and police in carrying out the War on Drugs, nor is it true that a massive share of American prisoners are 'nonviolent drug offenders.' Combining his lawyer's understanding of institutional practice with an economist's cold-eyed commitment to empirical fact, Pfaff points us to other causes, and the key one is a nationwide phenomenon of prosecutors filing felony charges and seeking longer sentences, often de facto life sentences, for violent crimes that were once treated more sensibly. The powerful lesson is that rational cost-benefit analysis can be a partner to human decency in redeeming lives that still hold promise, and in ending our status as an embarrassing international anomaly." -- Professor Robert Weisberg, co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, "Provocative and packed with data, Locked In will change how you think about what's wrong with the criminal justice system and how to fix it. A book that will be instantly integral to solving one of the country's most important challenges." --Emily Bazelon, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale University, and author of Sticks and Stones, ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LOCKED IN "A thorough and demanding examination of a problem that has no easy solutions and a challenge to policymakers to discard prior notions about the nature of the problem and the needed reforms." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Timely and authoritative, Pfaff's discussion of mass incarceration provides a valuable and accessible addition to the prison reform narrative and an excellent analysis of the U.S. criminal justice system." --Library Journal "A thorough and demanding examination of a problem that has no easy solutions and a challenge to policymakers to discard prior notions about the nature of the problem and the needed reforms." --Kirkus Reviews, "In Locked In , Pfaff plays a Socrates of criminal justice reform, interrogating all the main tenets of the Standard Story and eviscerating them with scores of data."-- Pacific Standard
Dewey Decimal
365.973
Synopsis
A groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates In Locked In , John Pfaff argues that the factors most commonly cited to explain mass incarceration -- the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons -- tell us much less than we think. Instead, Pfaff urges us to look at other factors, especially a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony charges against arrestees about twice as often as they had before. An authoritative, clear-eyed account of a national catastrophe, Locked In is "a must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world's most imprisoned nation" (Chris Hayes, author of A Colony in a Nation ). It transforms our understanding of what ails the American system of punishment and ultimately forces us to reconsider how we can build a more equitable and humane society.
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HV9471.P449 2017
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