“Unraveling mass incarceration: Criminology’s role in the policy process”

The title of this post is the title of this new article by Daniel Nagin in the journal Criminology.  This piece is adapted from an address delivered at the 2021 annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology in November 2021.  Here is its abstract:

In this address I argue that large reductions in unproductive and unjust uses of imprisonment requires curtailment of the over use of life imprisonment.  I go on to discuss how criminologists should engage the policy process to achieve material reductions in prison populations by the accumulation of many incremental reductions in the overuse of incarceration.