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Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime by Gordon Hawkins, Franklin E. Zimring
Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime

Gordon Hawkins, Franklin E. Zimring

Incapacitation: Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime

Gordon Hawkins, Franklin E. Zimring

208 pages first pub 1995 (view editions)

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The one, sure way that imprisonment prevents crime is by restraining offenders from committing crimes while they are locked up. Called "incapacitation" by experts in criminology, this effect has become the dominant justification for imprisonment i...

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