In this, the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation, Professors Zimring and Hawkins show the increasing reliance of restraint to justify imprisonment, analyse the existing theoretical literature on incapacitation effects, review the existing empirical research on the topic, report a new study, and explore in detail the links between what is known about incapacitation and the proper construction of criminal justice policy.
In this first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation, the authors show the increasing reliance on restraint to justify imprisonment by analyzing the existing theories on incapacitation's effects, assessing the current empirical research, reporting a new study, and exploring the links between what is known about incapacitation and what it tells us about our criminal justice policy.
