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Daedalus Issue: The Challenges of Mass Incarceration in America: Does Locking Up More People Reduce Crime?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Challenges of Mass Incarceration in America: Does Locking Up More People Reduce Crime? CAMBRIDGE, MA ? More Americans are serving time in prison or jail than at any point in the nation?s history, reflecting an incarceration rate that greatly exceeds those found in other advanced democracies. The growth of the nation?s penal population during the past three decades has produced ?a new group of social outcasts, defined by the shared experience of incarceration, crime, poverty, racial minority, and low education,? according to Harvard University sociologist Bruce Western. Bruce Western and Brown University economist Glenn C. Loury are guest editors of the new issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which examines the social, political, and economic implications of the largely invisible phenomenon of ?mass incarceration? in America...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 15, 2010 (boomark / email).