

Locked In
The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform
Author: John F. Pfaff
Narrator: Graham Halstead
Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 08/08/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, Political Science, Social Science, Penology
Synopsis
Pfaff urges us to look at other factors instead, including a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony charges against arrestees about twice as often as they had before. He describes a fractured criminal justice system, in which counties don't pay for the people they send to state prisons, and in which white suburbs set law and order agendas for more-heavily minority cities. And he shows that if we hope to significantly reduce prison populations, we have no choice but to think differently about how to deal with people convicted of violent crimes—and why some people are violent in the first place.