Cogent, compelling, and grounded in years of original research, this newly revised edition of Crime and Punishment in America will continue to frame the way we think about imprisonment for years to come. In this groundbreaking and revelatory work, renowned criminologist Elliott Currie offers a vivid critique of our nation's prison policies and turns his penetrating eye toward recent developments in criminal justice, showing us the path to a more peaceable and just society.
Elliott Currie argues that Americas exceptionalismextends into our criminal. Broadening his inquiry, he dissects the changes in middle-class life that have enforced newly rigid divides between winners and losers and imposed an. Today, there are several hundred thousand more inmates in the penal system, yet violence remains endemic in many American communities. NUMBER 1 - In Crime and Punishment in America, Elliott Currie argues that. Currie describes a society in which severe punishment and 'zero tolerance' of adolescent misbehavior have become the norm, where 'tough love' and medications have replaced engagement and guidance. When Crime and Punishment in America was first published in 1998, the national incarceration rate had doubled in just over a decade, and yet the United States remained-by an overwhelming margin-the most violent industrialized society in the world. The harsh punishment regime that is so deleterious in the family can be extended to the broader institutional culture. "Earnest, free of jargon, lucid…This is a book that ought to be read by anyone concerned about crime and punishment in America."-The Washington Post Book World
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