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Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration. By Michael Jacobson. New York: New York University Press, 2005. Pp. 292. $29.95 cloth.

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Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration. By Michael Jacobson. New York: New York University Press, 2005. Pp. 292. $29.95 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Candace Kruttschnitt
Candace Kruttschnitt*
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University of Minnesota
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Law & Society Review , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 740 - 742
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