Can Courts Abolish Mass Incarceration?

doi:10.1017/9781108234979.014

13 - Can Courts Abolish Mass Incarceration?

from Part III - Judicial Policymaking and the Modern State

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 April 2019

Edited by

Hadar Aviram and

Rosann Greenspan: Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Hadar Aviram: Affiliation:
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Jonathan Simon: Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

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The extraordinary growth in American prison populations from the late 1970s through the first decade of the twenty-first century has largely ended, and calls for reversing mass incarceration, as it has come to be known, abound from all sides. Yet as of this writing progress toward “decarceration” remains unsteady, and the likelihood of a systematic national decarceration effort led by the federal government has declined in the transition from the Obama to the Trump administration (Gottschalk 2015).

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Information: The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice
Studies Inspired by the Work of Malcolm Feeley
, pp. 259 - 272

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108234979.014 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2019

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