The End of Mass Incarceration? Exploring the Contradictions of Criminal Justice Reform

该项目将有助于确定药物和假释改革的通过是否表明导致大规模监禁的政策和做法正在全面转变。这些发现将有助于各种社会法律文献，以及更多关于药物法改革作为减少美国刑事司法系统中大规模监禁和种族不成比例的手段的潜力和局限性的政策导向讨论。这种混合方法的研究将分析不断变化和潜在矛盾的刑事司法实践和政策，以及通过后者合法化的话语。对国家惩教报告项目数据（2000-2012年）的分析将揭示监狱入学率、刑期和服刑时间方面最近和可能相互矛盾的趋势。从全国州立法机构委员会收集的立法数据集的汇编？重要的国家惩教和量刑立法报告将确定刑事司法决策中可能相互矛盾的趋势。还将通过对华盛顿州金县刑事案件处理的个案研究，确定有助于解释不断变化的刑事司法结果的非正式机制。

This project will help determine whether the adoption of drug and parole reforms is indicative of a comprehensive shift away from the policies and practices that led to mass incarceration. The findings will contribute to a variety of socio-legal literatures, as well as more policy-oriented discussions regarding the potential and limits of drug law reform as a means of reducing mass incarceration and racial disproportionality in the U.S. criminal justice system. This mixed methods study will analyze changing and potentially contradictory criminal justice practices and policies and the discourse through which the latter are legitimated. Analysis of National Corrections Reporting Program data (2000-2012) will shed light on recent and potentially contradictory trends in prison admissions, sentences, and time served. Compilation of a legislative dataset drawn from the National Council on State Legislatures? Significant State Corrections and Sentencing Legislation reports will identify potentially contradictory trends in criminal justice policy-making. The informal mechanisms that help to account for changing criminal justice outcomes will also be identified through a case study of criminal case processing in King County, Washington.