After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last four decades.

Between 1975 and 2007, the American incarceration rate increased nearly fivefold, a historic increase that puts the United States in a league of its own among a

James J. Chriss carefully guides readers through the debates about social control. The book provides a comprehensive guide to historical debates and more recent

Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than seven-fold to over two million people, including vastly dispropor

The public health expert and prison reform activist offers “meticulous analysis” on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration (Th