Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America

Jeremy Travis (Curatore)

Christy Visher (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America is intended to shed light on a question that fuels the public's concern about the number of returning prisoners. What are the public safety consequences of the fourfold increase in the number of individuals entering and leaving the nation's prisons each year? Many have speculated about the nexus between prisoner reentry and public safety. Journalistic accounts of the reentry phenomenon have painted a picture of a tidal wave of hardened criminals coming back home to resume their destructive lifestyles. Law enforcement officials have attributed increases in violence in their communities to the influx of returning prisoners. Politicians have recommended policies that keep former prisoners out of high crime neighborhoods in the belief that crime would be reduced. The chapters in this book address these issues and suggest policies that will keep released prisoners from committing new crimes.

• Curatore: Jeremy Travis, Christy Visher
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Anno: 2005
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 276 p.
• Dimensioni: 236 x 157 mm
• Peso: 497 gr.
• EAN: 9780521849166

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