Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-on-Crime Era: How Judges Retained Power and Why Mass Incarceration Happened Anyway

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The dramatic increase in U.S. prison populations for the reason that 1970s is ceaselessly blamed at the mandatory sentencing required by “three strikes” laws and other punitive crime bills. Michael O’Hear shows that the blame is in reality not so easily assigned. His meticulous analysis of incarceration in Wisconsin―a state where judges have considerable discretion in sentencing―explores the reasons why the prison population has ballooned nearly tenfold during the last forty years.

O’Hear tracks the effects of sentencing laws and politics in Wisconsin from the eve of the imprisonment boom in 1970 as much as the 2010s. Drawing on archival research, original public-opinion polling, and interviews with dozens of key policymakers, he reveals vital dimensions which were missed by others. He draws out lessons from the Wisconsin experience for the US as a complete, where mass incarceration has cost taxpayers billions of dollars and caused untold misery to millions of inmates and their families.

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