TY - BOOK ID - 145233789 TI - Ending mass incarceration : why it persists and how to achieve meaningful reform PY - 2021 SN - 0197536603 0197536581 019753659X PB - New York, New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Restorative justice. KW - Discrimination in criminal justice administration. KW - United States. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145233789 AB - Critics on both the left and the right increasingly use the term 'mass incarceration' to call attention to the unprecedented scale and inequities of the U.S. criminal legal system, and the havoc it wreaks. But even as lawmakers begin to embrace criminal justice reform, the criminal legal response to crime is harsher than ever. In this book, Katherine Beckett explains how and why mass incarceration persists despite growing recognition of its many failures, plummeting crime rates, and widespread efforts by state legislators and others to reduce prison populations. Beckett identifies three primary forces sustaining incarceration rates in this country: political dynamics around violence, resistance to criminal legal system reform in suburban and rural counties, and the failure of popular drug policy reforms to reduce the reach of the criminal legal system. ER -