America's Prisons
America's Prisons | Imprisonment Reduces Crime
Imprisonment’s role in reducing crime has met increased scrutiny since the U.S. prison population reached 2 million inmates in 1999. In the following viewpoint, Morgan Reynolds argues that imprisonment reduces crime by incapacitating career criminals and deterring others from committing offenses. The drop in the crime rate in the 1990s, Reynolds claims, was a result of the booming prison population. He maintains that America’s high crime rates and high imprisonment rates do not reflect a flawed prison system, but the failure to imprison more offenders in previous years. Reynolds is...
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- Introduction
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Chapter 1: Are Prisons Effective?
- Chapter 1 Preface
- The Prison System Works
- The Prison System Does Not Work
- More Imprisonment Is Needed
- More Imprisonment Is Not Needed
- Imprisonment Reduces Crime
- Imprisonment Does Not Reduce Crime
- Privatization Would Benefit the Prison System
- Privatization Would Not Benefit the Prison System
- Chapter 1: Periodical Bibliography
- Chapter 2: How Should Prisons Treat Inmates?
- Chapter 3: Should Prisons Use Inmate Labor?
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Chapter 4: What Are the Alternatives to Prisons?
- Chapter 4 Preface
- Parole Can Succeed as an Alternative
- Parole and Probation Have Not Succeeded as Alternatives
- Drug Treatment Can Succeed as an Alternative
- Drug Offenders Should Be Imprisoned
- Creative Sentencing Can Provide Effective Alternatives
- Creative Sentencing May Not Provide Effective Alternatives
- Shame-Based Punishment Can Be an Effective Alternative
- Shame-Based Punishment May Not Be an Effective Alternative
- Chapter 4 Periodical Bibliography
- For Further Discussion
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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