Title: Locked In Pdf The True Causes of Mass Incarceration
Author: John Pfaff
Published Date: 2017-01-24
Page: 272
John F. Pfaff is a Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. His work on mass incarceration, prosecutors, and criminal justice reform has been covered in The Economist, The New Yorker, the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, National Review, Slate, and Vox, among many others. He has a JD and a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
In the 1970s, the United States had an incarceration rate comparable to those of other liberal democracies-and that rate had held steady for over 100 years. Yet today, though the US is home to only about 5 percent of the world's population, we hold nearly one quarter of its prisoners. Mass incarceration is now widely considered one of the biggest social and political crises of our age. How did we get to this point?
Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country. Having spent fifteen years studying the data on imprisonment, John Pfaff takes apart the reigning consensus created by Michelle Alexander and other reformers, revealing that the most widely accepted explanations-the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons-tell us much less than we think. Pfaff urges us to look at other factors instead, including a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony charges against arrestees about twice as often as they had before. He describes a fractured criminal justice system, in which counties don't pay for the people they send to state prisons, and in which white suburbs set law and order agendas for more-heavily minority cities. And he shows that if we hope to significantly reduce prison populations, we have no choice but to think differently about how to deal with people convicted of violent crimes-and why some people are violent in the first place.
An authoritative, clear-eyed account of a national catastrophe, Locked In transforms our understanding of what ails the American system of punishment and ultimately forces us to reconsider how we can build a more equitable and humane society.
Anybody who is in interested in criminal justice reform or has been impacted by it NEEDS to read this book When we talk about prison growth most advocates and reformist point to the failed War on Drugs, mandatory minimums, and the private prison industrial complex as the causes of mass incarceration. These are all factors and not irrelevant, but are they really what drove us to hold one quarter of the world's incarcerated population? John Pfaff, with compelling data and evidence, has made me think twice about the standard story promoted by Michelle Alexander and documentaries like 13th. Pfaff points to admissions not time served, not drugs but violence, not the private industrial complex but the public industrial complex, and prosecutor behavior as the real culprits for such high numbers of people behind bars. Anybody who is interested in reforming the criminal justice system or has been impacted by this broken system NEEDS to read this book. I am finishing it off with a new understanding of the criminal justice system and possible solutions as we move forward. Highly recommend this book!Fixing a Problem Always Begins by Understanding its True Origins. I couldn't have been more excited to read this book after hearing Prof. Pfaff speak at Cato's Criminal Justice Conference in December 2016. His talk gave a great teaser to the type and quality of the data in his book, and the comprehensive and honest analysis the data supports, or, cruciall doesn't support.Among the key takeaways from this book are:1. Public and Private prisons share similar pathologies that negatively impact the CJ system.2. States are largely ignored in the reform community, even as they hold upwards of 88% of inmmates.3. Prison populations are important, but the "flow" of admissions into jails and prisons is just as important--as the collateral consequences of convictions are difficult to measure and an unseen cost of our current system.4. "The Drug War" only loosely explains mass incarceration because instead of 1 "Drug War" we have 3000+ separate county/city wars on crime more broadly.5. The "costs" of draconian policies are typically felt by urban, often minority populations, who don't influence prosecutorial behavior as much as suburban, wealthier areas. and, perhaps most importantly:6. Reformers largely ignore the behavior and incentives of prosecutors, who are the most important actors in the system and are largely responsible for the increases in incarcerations and conviction rates even as crime has declined.I strongly recommend this book for citizens and lawyers alike who are seeking to understand why the US has mass incarceration relative to other Western, developed states and want to think of ways out of the status quo.A broader look at the mass incarceration problem than a the New Jim Crow This book provides a perspective on the mass incarceration that looks at the criminal justice system as a whole, rather than focusing on any single element. This is a "must read" for anyone who is seriously interested in the effects of mass incarceration. Statistics are carefully researched, with lots of footnotes showing sources.
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