Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost, "The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America" (NYU Press, 2015)
b'Over the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate\\u2015five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the rest of the world. In\\xa0The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America\\xa0(New York University Press, 2013), criminologists Todd Clear and Natasha Frost argue that America\\u2019s move to mass incarceration from the 1960s to the early 2000s was more than just a response to crime or a collection of policies adopted in isolation; it was a grand social experiment. Tracing a wide array of trends related to the criminal justice system, this book charts the rise of penal severity in America and speculates that a variety of force have finally come together to bring this great social experiment to an end.\\nTodd R. Clear is University Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, Newark.\\xa0He was also the founder of Rutgers University-Newark\\u2019s New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (NJ-STEP) consortium.\\nSchneur Zalman Newfield\\xa0is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of\\xa0Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism\\xa0(Temple University Press, 2020).\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law'