Book review: The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Fall of Mass Incarceration in America

Alexander M (2010) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press.

Brame R Bushway SD Paternoster R . (2014) Demographic patterns of cumulative arrest prevalence by ages 18–23. Crime & Delinquency 60(3): 471–486.

Cullen F Johnson CL Stohr MK (eds) (2014) The American Prison: Imagining a Different Future. New York: SAGE.

Gottschalk M (2006) The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

National Audit Office (2012) Comparing International Criminal Justice Systems. London: National Audit Office.