Unraveling mass incarceration: Criminology’s role in the policy process*

Unraveling mass incarceration: Criminology’s role in the policy process*

Abstract

In this address I argue that large reductions in unproductive and unjust uses of imprisonment requires curtailment of the over use of life imprisonment. I go on to discuss how criminologists should engage the policy process to achieve material reductions in prison populations by the accumulation of many incremental reductions in the overuse of incarceration.