Paper Title
Book Review: Crime Control and Women: Feminist Implications of Criminal Justice Policy
Keywords
- Crime Control
- Women
- Feminist Criminology
- Criminal Justice Policy
- War on Crime
- Incarceration
- Drug Policies
- Prohibition
- Unintended Consequences
- Empirical Research
- Policy Change
- Prison Impact
- Community Consequences
- Mass Incarceration
- Gender and Justice
- Criminology
Journal
Research Impact Tools
Publication Info
Volume: 24 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 194-196
Published On
October, 1999
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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.
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