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Incarceration Nation

How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World

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ID19945942
AuthorsPeter K Enns (0000-0002-0573-1043, Cornell University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-03-21
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueIncarceration Nation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781316471029
OpenAlexW4241975325
Open LibraryOL28587877M
ISBN9781316471029
LanguageEN
Citations received175

The rise of mass incarceration in the United States is one of the most critical outcomes of the last half-century. Incarceration Nation offers the most compelling explanation of this outcome to date. This book combines in-depth analysis of Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon's presidential campaigns with sixty years of data analysis. The result is a sophisticated and highly accessible picture of the rise of mass incarceration. In contrast to conventional wisdom, Peter K. Enns shows that during the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, politicians responded to an increasingly punitive public by pushing policy in a more punitive direction. The book also argues that media coverage of rising crime rates helped fuel the public's punitiveness. Equally as important, a decline in public punitiveness in recent years offers a critical window into understanding current bipartisan calls for criminal justice reform

Criminal justice · Criminology · Democracy · Mass incarceration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Public opinion · Punitive damages · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Administration of Criminal justice · Corrections · Emprisonnement · Freiheitsstrafe · History · Imprisonment · politics and government · Services correctionnels · Strafvollzug · united states · University of South Alabama

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Unique citing works175
Citations per year17,5
Citation span2016 - 2026 (11)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedYes
Citation typesNeutral: 175
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