TY  - CHAP
AB  - The past several decades have seen a tremendous increase in the U.S. incarceration rate, with varying trends in other advanced industrial democracies. These developments have only recently begun to attract the attention of political scientists. This chapter provides a critical review of recent literature on mass incarceration by both political scientists and scholars in related disciplines, and a discussion of directions for further research. I argue that further work in this area should involve theoretically informed analysis of interactions between criminal justice experts and professionals, elected politicians, and the public at large, with particular attention to how public concerns about crime are parsed and interpreted by public officials in the making of penal policy.
VL  - 53
SN  - 978-0-85724-615-8, 978-0-85724-616-5/1059-4337
DO  - 10.1108/S1059-4337(2010)0000053008
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-4337(2010)0000053008
AU  - Hovde Peter
ED  - Austin Sarat
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - The political analysis of mass incarceration
T2  - Studies in Law, Politics and Society
T3  - Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 111
EP  - 135
Y2  - 2024/05/06
ER  -