Katherine Beckett is chair and professor in the department of Law, Societies, and Justice and S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. She is the author of Making Crime Pay and co-author of Banished and The Politics of Injustice.
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In this book, Katherine Beckett explains how and why mass incarceration persists despite growing recognition of its many failures, plummeting crime rates, and widespread efforts by state legislators and others to reduce prison populations. Beckett identif... SEE MORE