Tag: Prison

Books

Cruel and Usual: Pretrial Punishment in Jail

The Washington Monthly, December 1985.
Excerpt: John Irwin’s thesis is that American society uses jails to control and segregate the “rabble,” a subset of the poor and disadvantaged. Besides being destitute, the rabble are… More

Does Prison Work?

– (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1997.)
Summary from Publisher: Crime is low when crime doesn’t pay, is the motto of this provocative essay by Charles Murray. He challenges the prevailing view amongst the criminal justice… More

Essays

Cruel and Usual: Pretrial Punishment in Jail

The Washington Monthly, December 1985.
Excerpt: John Irwin’s thesis is that American society uses jails to control and segregate the “rabble,” a subset of the poor and disadvantaged. Besides being destitute, the rabble are… More

Does Prison Work?

– (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1997.)
Summary from Publisher: Crime is low when crime doesn’t pay, is the motto of this provocative essay by Charles Murray. He challenges the prevailing view amongst the criminal justice… More

Commentary

Cruel and Usual: Pretrial Punishment in Jail

The Washington Monthly, December 1985.
Excerpt: John Irwin’s thesis is that American society uses jails to control and segregate the “rabble,” a subset of the poor and disadvantaged. Besides being destitute, the rabble are… More

Does Prison Work?

– (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1997.)
Summary from Publisher: Crime is low when crime doesn’t pay, is the motto of this provocative essay by Charles Murray. He challenges the prevailing view amongst the criminal justice… More

Multimedia

Cruel and Usual: Pretrial Punishment in Jail

The Washington Monthly, December 1985.
Excerpt: John Irwin’s thesis is that American society uses jails to control and segregate the “rabble,” a subset of the poor and disadvantaged. Besides being destitute, the rabble are… More

Does Prison Work?

– (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1997.)
Summary from Publisher: Crime is low when crime doesn’t pay, is the motto of this provocative essay by Charles Murray. He challenges the prevailing view amongst the criminal justice… More

Teaching

Cruel and Usual: Pretrial Punishment in Jail

The Washington Monthly, December 1985.
Excerpt: John Irwin’s thesis is that American society uses jails to control and segregate the “rabble,” a subset of the poor and disadvantaged. Besides being destitute, the rabble are… More

Does Prison Work?

– (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1997.)
Summary from Publisher: Crime is low when crime doesn’t pay, is the motto of this provocative essay by Charles Murray. He challenges the prevailing view amongst the criminal justice… More