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Abstract: 

Reviews four books: “A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America” by Ernest Drucker (The New Press, 2011); “The Origins of American Criminology” edited by Francis T. Cullen, Cheryl Leo Jonson, Andrew J. Meyer, and Freda Adler (Transaction Publishers, 2011); “Why Punish? How Much? A Reader on Punishment” edited by Michael Tonry (Oxford University Press, 2011); “Crime and Public Policy” edited by James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia (Oxford University Press, 2011); “The Collapse of American Criminal Justice” by William J. Stuntz (Harvard University Press, 2011)

Keywords: Mass Imprisonment; Punishment; Public Policy; Criminal Justice in Crisis

Affiliations:  1: Book Review Editor.