Mona Lynch: 2 books
Hard Bargains
The Coercive Power of Drug Laws in Federal Court
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The convergence of tough-on-crime politics, stiffer sentencing laws, and jurisdictional expansion in the 1970s and 1980s increased the powers of federal prosecutors in unprecedented ways. In Hard Bargains, social psychologist Mona Lynch investigates the increased power of these prosecutors in our...
Sunbelt Justice
Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 million people are held in state and federal prisons. Arizona's Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift...