Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime by Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins
Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime

Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime

Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

208 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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The one, sure way that imprisonment prevents crime is by restraining offenders from committing crimes while they are locked up. Called "incapacitation" by experts in criminology, this effect has become the dominant justification for imprisonment i...

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