Book Review: Crime Control and Women: Feminist Implications of Criminal Justice Policy
Abstract
The 1990s ushered in an unprecedented national commitment to wage a war on crime. A full-scale incarceration campaign operationalized the get-tough attitude towards drugs. Like prohibition, drug policies were a large-scale natural experiment for which the out- comes were largely unknown or unforeseeable. Now that sufficient time has passed for unin- tended consequences to surface, criminologists are documenting them in hopes that the careful accumulation of empirical information will eventually contribute to the public dialogue and to policy change. Already a significant literature has documented the array of negative consequences on communities where prison disproportionately decimates the male population.