Abstract
The United States Code creates over 3,000 federal crimes. States and localities maintain countless statutes and ordinances that empower police to make arrests, prosecutors to bring charges, and courts to impose punishments. Nearly two million people in the U.S. are imprisoned and nearly four million people are on parole or probation. The U.S. prison population increased from 93 people in prison per 100,000 in 1972 to a high of about 536 per 100,000 in 2008, and people of color are numerically overrepresented behind bars.
Keywords
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