Title Selective incapacitation and public policy : evaluating California's imprisonment crisis / Kathleen Auerhahn

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 226 pages) : illustrations Series SUNY series in new directions in crime and justice studies SUNY series in new directions in crime and justice studies. Contents I: : The criminal in society: penal response and rationale -- Criminal punishment in civil society: purpose and method -- Criminal sentencing reform and paradigm change in California -- II: Incapacitation and dangerousness -- Selective incapacitation -- Dangerousness -- Assessing the level of dangerousness in the criminal justice system -- III: Evaluating the past, choosing the future -- Modeling the California criminal justice system, Part I: reproducing and evaluating the past -- Modeling the California criminal justice system, Part II: predictive evaluation -- Choosing California's future Summary Annotation. A volume in the SUNY series in New Directions in Crime and Justice Studies Austin T. Turk, editor Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Imprisonment -- Government policy -- California Criminal justice, Administration of -- California SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology. Criminal justice, Administration of Imprisonment -- Government policy California Form Electronic book ISBN 1417538724 9781417538720 0791457974 9780791457979 0791457982 9780791457986 9780791486412 0791486419

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