Unemployment and Imprisonment

Imprisonment

So many medical men in Government service in India of all grades are concerned in prison administration that the publication of this little paper-bound volume by Col. Barker will be very welcome. It is a presentation of the present position with regard to Indian prisons, and a suggestion for future policy and improvements, based on the author's long experience of prison administration in the Ce...

Imprisonment and crime

Since 1972, the rate of incarceration in U.S. state and federal prisons has increased every year without exception from a rate of 96 prisoners per 100,000 population in 1972 to 504 prisoners per 100,000 in 2008 (BJS, 2008).1 Counting those housed in jails, the nation’s total incarceration rate has surpassed 750 per 100,000 (Liptak, 2008). Accompanying the 40-year increase in imprisonment has be...

Imprisonment and Criminal Discourse

In this work, I would like to question the canonical view of prison, which underlies the daily practice of law, and criminal law courses at law schools. Our criminal discourse excessively limits, or even forbids, the possibility of discussing imprisonment. In this way, imprisonment, a rudimentary and brutal tool, is criminal law ́s ordinary means of punishment, and there is no evidence that lega...

Deterrent effect of imprisonment

This paper provides a sintetic review of the literature concernig the effects of imprisonment on crime rates and on recidivism. We hghlighht both the effects depending on general and specific deterrence as well as open research questions. Readers wishing to cite this document are asked to use the following form of words: Galbiati Roberto, Drago Francesco (2012). “Deterrent effects of imprisonme...

Drug Policy, Criminal Justice and Mass Imprisonment