America behind bars trends in imprisonment, 1950 to 2000 / [electronic resource] :
Rick Ruddell.
- New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2004.
- xi, 202 p. : ill.
- Criminal justice .
- Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-199) and index.
Mass imprisonment -- Justice systems and punishment -- Theories of formal social control -- Prior imprisonment research -- Economic, social, and political trends -- Explaining imprisonment trends -- The future of mass imprisonment.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Imprisonment--United States. Punishment--United States. Social control--United States. Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects--United States.