Finding Direction: Expanding Criminal Justice Options by Considering Policies of Other Nations
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
May. 06, 2011
ANNOTATION: Individuals that are interested in or charged with reducing correctional costs needs to read this report. This publication "concentrate[s] on current practices and structures that could realistically be changed, and models from other comparison nations that could be replicated or adapted, to reduce incarceration in the U.S.” (p. 4). Contents of this publication include: introduction; similarities between nations make policy opportunities possible; the U.S. leads the world in incarceration, but this is not making the U.S. safer; the U.S. justice system operates to create more incarceration; differences across nations present some challenges to implementing policy; certain communities bear a disproportionate burden of incarceration in all comparison nations; conclusion and recommendations; glossary of terms; and “Factsheet: International Policies in the United States.”
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