The authors provide a comprehensive treatment of the politics and impact of 'get tough' criminal sentencing legislation in the United States. The book includes a study of the celebrated California 'three strikes' law.

In Crime is Not the Problem, Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins revolutionize the way we think about crime and violence--by forcing us to distinguish between crime and violence.

Pornography in a Free Society deals with what has been called the 'civil war over smut'.

Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins's first premise is that our criminal justice system is a moral busybody, unwisely extended beyond its proper role of protecting persons and property.

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States.

"The Scale of Imprisonment has an exceptionally well designed literature review of interest to public policy, criminal justice, and public law scholars.

. The views of these professionals must be taken seriously."—Graham Hughes, New York Review of Books "This is a serious and enlightened and concerned attempt to fuse liberal and conservative attitudes and values to achieve a breakthrough ...

How useful is the modern prison in restraining crime, and at what cost? How much do we really know about incapacitation and its effectiveness? This book is the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation.

This book redefines the central political and legal issues of the death penalty in the light of the social, political, and moral conditions of the United States in the 1980s.

. . . This is not a pessimistic book. It is a realistic book. It avoids the pitfall of utopian and single-factor solutions to an extremely complex problem."—Graeme R. Newman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science