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Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-On-Crime Era: How Judges Retained Power and Why Mass Incarceration Happened Anyway Hardcover - 2017 - 1st Edition

by Michael O'Hear


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The dramatic increase in U.S. prison populations since the 1970s is often blamed on the mandatory sentencing required by three strikes laws and other punitive crime bills. Michael O'Hear shows that the blame is actually not so easily assigned. His meticulous analysis of incarceration in Wisconsin--a state where judges have considerable discretion in sentencing--explores the reasons why the prison population has ballooned nearly tenfold over the past forty years. O'Hear tracks the effects of sentencing laws and politics in Wisconsin from the eve of the imprisonment boom in 1970 up to the 2010s. Drawing on archival research, original public-opinion polling, and interviews with dozens of key policymakers, he reveals important dimensions that have been missed by others. He draws out lessons from the Wisconsin experience for the United States as a whole, where mass incarceration has cost taxpayers billions of dollars and caused untold misery to millions of inmates and their families.

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  • Title Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-On-Crime Era: How Judges Retained Power and Why Mass Incarceration Happened Anyway
  • Author Michael O'Hear
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
  • Date 2017
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780299310202 / 0299310205
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Imprisonment - Wisconsin - History, Sentences (Criminal procedure) - Wisconsin -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016013661
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.650

About the author

Michael M. O'Hear is a professor of law at Marquette University. He is an editor of the journal Federal Sentencing Reporter and has published many articles on sentencing law, criminal procedure, and public opinion about the criminal justice system.
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