IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/anname/v478y1985i1p123-134.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Charting a Course for Imprisonment Policy

Author

Listed:
  • JOHN P. CONRAD

Abstract

There is no coherent policy on the use of imprisonment in the United States or on its operation other than the interpretation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution by the federal courts. The absence of such a policy results in overcrowding and other abuses, made even more serious than ever by the increasing concentration of violent prisoners in the large penitentiaries of the more populous states. It is proposed here that the elements of a coherent policy should comprise appropriate restraint, differential security, middle-range planning, an integrated penal plan including community programs as well as incarceration, and the maintenance of public support. To assure that such a policy is continuously sustained, a commission on penal policy should be instituted in each state to plan and review legislative and policy changes.

Suggested Citation

  • John P. Conrad, 1985. "Charting a Course for Imprisonment Policy," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 478(1), pages 123-134, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:478:y:1985:i:1:p:123-134
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716285478001011
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716285478001011
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0002716285478001011?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:478:y:1985:i:1:p:123-134. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.