Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons by Edward L. Rubin, Malcolm M. Feeley

Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons

Cambridge Studies in Criminology

Edward L. Rubin, Malcolm M. Feeley

508 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology
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Between 1965 and 1990, federal judges in almost all of the states handed down sweeping rulings that affected virtually every prison and jail in the United States. Without a doubt judges were the most important prison reformers during this period. ...

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