CSPAN Washington This Week May 31, 2015
Describe some of the thinking behind chapter four and draw some brief conclusions from that. Chapter four is about the Political Forces behind the prison boom, the reason why we have the sudden break in previous rates of incarceration, when we see a sudden increase in incarceration. Our Analysis Shows that the crime issue emerged as an Important National question in the 1960s, intertwined with earlier issues that were related, particularly civil rights. I do not mean that there were earlier discussions of crime in american history. It became an issue again in a somewhat new way in the 1960s. W...