Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-on-Crime Era
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Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-on-Crime Era by Michael O'hear
The increase in US prison populations since the 1970s is often blamed on the mandatory sentencing required by three strikes laws and other punitive crime bills. Michael O'Hear shows that the blame is actually not so easily assigned. His meticulous analysis of incarceration in Wisconsin explores the reasons why the prison population has ballooned.
Serious students of modern sentencing reforms-as well as everyone eager to understand the roots of, and potential responses to, modern mass incarceration-must have this book on their reading listO'Hear thoroughly canvasses the dynamic story of Wisconsin's uniquely important sentencing reform history." - Douglas Berman, author of the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog
"Fascinating political and social history. O'Hear puts national criminal justice trends into a single-state frame, providing much sharper insights than often come from trying to look at the entirety of this very big country. This is first-rate work." - Frank O. Bowman III, University of Missouri School of Law
"Highly recommended to judges, academics, students, or anyone interested in learning more about effective sentencing reform." - New York Journal of Books
"Eye-opening." - Shepherd Express
"Debunks myths surrounding mass incarceration." - Isthmus
"O'Hear's carefully qualified and explicitly contingent hypothesis enjoys robust support in highly qualified scholarship and in empirical data." - Wisconsin Lawyer
"Fascinating political and social history. O'Hear puts national criminal justice trends into a single-state frame, providing much sharper insights than often come from trying to look at the entirety of this very big country. This is first-rate work." - Frank O. Bowman III, University of Missouri School of Law
"Highly recommended to judges, academics, students, or anyone interested in learning more about effective sentencing reform." - New York Journal of Books
"Eye-opening." - Shepherd Express
"Debunks myths surrounding mass incarceration." - Isthmus
"O'Hear's carefully qualified and explicitly contingent hypothesis enjoys robust support in highly qualified scholarship and in empirical data." - Wisconsin Lawyer
Michael M. O'Hear is a professor of law at Marquette University. He is the author of The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform and Prisons and Punishment in America: Examining the Facts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780299310240 |
| ISBN 10 | 0299310248 |
| Title | Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-on-Crime Era |
| Author | Michael O'hear |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Year published | 2021-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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