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02302aam a2200385 i 4500 001 3281775286E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210317010020 008 190502s2019 ncua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019019063 020 $a 1531011799 020 $a 9781531011796 035 $a (OCoLC)1100446892 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d CLE $d YUS $d FPR $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV9471 $b .P39 2019 100 1 $a Paxson, Peyton, $e author. 245 10 $a Why American prisons fail : $b how to fix them without spending more money (maybe less) / $c Peyton Paxson, George H. Watson. 250 $a Second edition. 264 1 $a Durham, North Carolina : $b Carolina Academic Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xv, 292 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 2 $a Two former law school classmates, Peyton Paxson, a criminal justice professor, and George H. Watson, a past federal inmate and former attorney, address the issues currently facing our corrections system. They begin by describing how events in the late twentieth century caused the U.S. to have the highest incarceration rate in the world today. They go on to discuss how Watson found himself in prison and his observations of how prisons fail to do their job--to rehabilitate prisoners and prepare them for reintegration back into society. This book provides brief surveys of the history of criminological theory and American prisons and compares U.S. penology with that of other Western democracies. The authors also examine the political and economic factors that drive today's mass incarceration phenomenon. 650 0 $a Prisons $z United States. 650 0 $a Corrections $z United States. 650 0 $a Criminal justice, Administration of $z United States. 650 7 $a Corrections. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00880260 650 7 $a Criminal justice, Administration of. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00883246 650 7 $a Prisons. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077326 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 700 1 $a Watson, George H. $q (George Hill), $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014853.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3281775286E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search