Why American Prisons Fail: How to Fix Them without Spending More Money (Maybe Less) Peyton Paxson and George H. Watson.

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Why American Prisons Fail: How to Fix Them without Spending More Money (Maybe Less) Peyton Paxson and George H. Watson

Chapter 1 Mass Incarceration Why American Prisons Fail Copyright © 2015 Carolina Academic Press. All rights reserved.

Mass Incarceration Began in the U.S. in the 1970s Copyright © 2015 Carolina Academic Press. All rights reserved.

Causes of Mass Incarceration Highly politicized criminal justice system Baby Boom—large group of young people, who are the most likely to commit crimes “Nothing works”—Federal Bureau of Prisons and many states gave up on rehabilitation War on Drugs—Nixon and Reagan administrations focused on drug dealers and drug users Mandatory minimums—politically popular effort by legislatures to take away sentencing discretion from judges and juries “Get Tough” movement—longer sentences, less prison programming Copyright © 2015 Carolina Academic Press. All rights reserved.

The Baby Boom Contributed to the Rise in Crime in the 1960s and 1970s Copyright © 2015 Carolina Academic Press. All rights reserved.

Violent Crimes Peaked in the Early 1990s Copyright © 2015 Carolina Academic Press. All rights reserved.

Violent Crimes Peaked in the Early 1990s Copyright © 2015 Carolina Academic Press. All rights reserved.

Violent Crimes Increased Dramatically in the 1960s Copyright © 2015 Carolina Academic Press. All rights reserved.

Property Crimes also Increased Dramatically in the 1960s Copyright © 2015 Carolina Academic Press. All rights reserved.

Drug Arrests Increased in Most Years from 1981 Copyright © 2015 Carolina Academic Press. All rights reserved.

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