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Mass Incarceration Nation from Part II - The Building Blocks of Mass Incarceration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2022
The previous chapter discussed the wave of political energy introduced into American politics by a desire to fight crime. The message resonated beyond the “street crimes” Senator Kennedy singled out in 1975, like rape and murder. Politicians also turned to the criminal justice architecture to solve society’s most vexing problems, like drug addiction, gun violence, child pornography, drunk driving, and intrafamily abuse. This approach required two components: new laws and increased enforcement. Legislators changed the laws, and they funded a hiring spree of police officers to catch people who broke those laws, prosecutors and judges to put them in jail, and correctional officers to keep them there.
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