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Big Prisons, Big Dreams Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System
by Lynch, Michael J.
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- Comments: None. The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased. This doesn't surprise Michael J. Lynch, a critical criminologist, who argues that our oversized prison system is a product of our consumer culture, the public's inaccurate beliefs about controlling crime, and the government's criminalizing of the poor.While deterrence and incapacitation theories suggest that imprisoning more criminals and punishing them leads to a reduc
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- ISBN-13: 9780813541860
- ISBN: 0813541867
- Publication Date: 2007
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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Michael J. Lynch is a professor in the department of criminology at the University of South Florida.Lynch, Michael J. is the author of 'Big Prisons, Big Dreams Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System', published 2007 under ISBN 9780813541860 and ISBN 0813541867.
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