Citation

Zimring FE. Issues Sci. Technol. 2008; 25(1): 11.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine)

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Abstract

In "Fixing the Parole System" (Issues, Summer 2008), Mark A. R. Kleiman and Angela Hawken correctly note that incarceration has become an overused and hugely expansive state activity during the past generation. Controlling for changes in population, the imprisonment rate in the United States has expanded fourfold in 35 years. Their rather modest proposal is to substitute intensive supervision and non-incarcerative sanctions for a system of parole monitoring and reincarceration in California that combines high cost and marginal public safety benefits.....

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