Incapacitation : Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime

This book is the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation. Zimring and Hawkins shows the increasing reliance on restraint to justify imprisonment, analyse the existing theoretical literature on incapacitation's effects, review the existing empirical research on the topic, and explore in detail the links between what is known about incapacitation and the proper construction of criminal justice policy.