This article reviews evidence for the effects of public opinion on court decision-making,
capital punishment policy and use, correctional expenditures, and incarceration rates. It also …

This article examines the origins of US mass incarceration. Although it is clear that changes
in policy and practice are the proximate drivers of the prison boom, researchers continue to …

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the
United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the …

The rise of mass incarceration in the United States is one of the most critical outcomes of the
last half-century. Incarceration Nation offers the most compelling explanation of this outcome …

Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than
seven-fold to over two million people, including vastly disproportionate numbers of …

Dædalus Summer 2010 75 poverty in the crumbling inner city requires a different policy
response than mass incarceration would and calls for an analysis of the political obstacles to …

The expansion of the US carceral state has been accompanied by the emergence of what
we call the 'shadow carceral state'. Operating beyond the confines of criminal law and justice …

Following more than 30 years of rising incarceration rates, the United States now imprisons
a higher proportion of its population than any country in the world. Building on theories of …

As reactions to the OJ Simpson verdict, the Rodney King beating, and the Amadou Diallo
killing make clear, whites and African Americans in the United States inhabit two different …

Although there exists a large and well‐documented “race gap” between whites and blacks in
their support for the death penalty, we know relatively little about the nature of these …