{"product_id":"selective-incapacitation-and-public-policy-kathleen-auerhahn-9780791457986","title":"Selective Incapacitation and Public Policy: Evaluating California's Imprisonment Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUsing cutting-edge methodologies, this book evaluates California's measures to protect the public from dangerous criminals.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1970s to the new millennium, the prison population in the United States has quadrupled while an unprecedented amount of sentencing reform has taken place, largely intended to protect the public from dangerous criminals. This book details the California experience, including the history and politics of criminal sentencing policy reform, as well as the consequences of this activity to the criminal justice system. Using cutting-edge computer simulation modeling, Kathleen Auerhahn explores the impact that sentencing reforms dating back to the 1970s have had on the composition and structure of the criminal justice system, with specific focus on prison populations. She illustrates how dynamic systems simulation modeling is used to both examine \"possible futures\" under a variety of sentencing structures and sentencing policy alternatives, including narrowing \"strike zones\" and the early release of elderly offenders, in order to more effectively target the dangerous criminals these policies promise to remove from society via incarceration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen Auerhahn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791457982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791457986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.94w x 0.53d","brand":"Kathleen Auerhahn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48438008774911,"sku":"9780791457986","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f39b69ef-3556-4275-8e52-f5d1eb65c8c7.jpg?v=1777168180","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/selective-incapacitation-and-public-policy-kathleen-auerhahn-9780791457986","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}