Michael M. O'Hear is a professor of law at Marquette University. He is the author of The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform and Prisons and Punishment in America: Examining the Facts.

Serious students of modern sentencing reforms-as well as everyone eager to understand the roots of, and potential responses to, modern mass incarceration-must have this book on their reading list. O'Hear thoroughly canvasses the dynamic story of Wisconsin's uniquely important sentencing reform history." - Douglas Berman, author of the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog"Fascinating political and social history. O'Hear puts national criminal justice trends into a single-state frame, providing much sharper insights than often come from trying to look at the entirety of this very big country. This is first-rate work." - Frank O. Bowman III, University of Missouri School of Law"Highly recommended to judges, academics, students, or anyone interested in learning more about effective sentencing reform." - New York Journal of Books"Eye-opening." - Shepherd Express"Debunks myths surrounding mass incarceration." - Isthmus"O'Hear's carefully qualified and explicitly contingent hypothesis enjoys robust support in highly qualified scholarship and in empirical data." - Wisconsin Lawyer

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction 1 Setting the Stage, Meeting the Players2 The Seventies Synthesis3 The Equivocal Assault on Discretion, 1980-19954 The Quest for Improved Community Corrections, 1980-19975 'Truth' and Its Consequences: The Demise of Parole6 The 2s: Managerialism's Modest Comeback7 Wisconsin's War on Drugs8 LessonsNotesIndex

Michael M. O'Hear is a professor of law at Marquette University. He is the author of The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform and Prisons and Punishment in America: Examining the Facts.

Serious students of modern sentencing reforms-as well as everyone eager to understand the roots of, and potential responses to, modern mass incarceration-must have this book on their reading list. O'Hear thoroughly canvasses the dynamic story of Wisconsin's uniquely important sentencing reform history." - Douglas Berman, author of the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog"Fascinating political and social history. O'Hear puts national criminal justice trends into a single-state frame, providing much sharper insights than often come from trying to look at the entirety of this very big country. This is first-rate work." - Frank O. Bowman III, University of Missouri School of Law"Highly recommended to judges, academics, students, or anyone interested in learning more about effective sentencing reform." - New York Journal of Books"Eye-opening." - Shepherd Express"Debunks myths surrounding mass incarceration." - Isthmus"O'Hear's carefully qualified and explicitly contingent hypothesis enjoys robust support in highly qualified scholarship and in empirical data." - Wisconsin Lawyer

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction 1 Setting the Stage, Meeting the Players2 The Seventies Synthesis3 The Equivocal Assault on Discretion, 1980-19954 The Quest for Improved Community Corrections, 1980-19975 'Truth' and Its Consequences: The Demise of Parole6 The 2s: Managerialism's Modest Comeback7 Wisconsin's War on Drugs8 LessonsNotesIndex

Michael M. O'Hear is a professor of law at Marquette University. He is the author of The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform and Prisons and Punishment in America: Examining the Facts.

Serious students of modern sentencing reforms-as well as everyone eager to understand the roots of, and potential responses to, modern mass incarceration-must have this book on their reading list. O'Hear thoroughly canvasses the dynamic story of Wisconsin's uniquely important sentencing reform history." - Douglas Berman, author of the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog"Fascinating political and social history. O'Hear puts national criminal justice trends into a single-state frame, providing much sharper insights than often come from trying to look at the entirety of this very big country. This is first-rate work." - Frank O. Bowman III, University of Missouri School of Law"Highly recommended to judges, academics, students, or anyone interested in learning more about effective sentencing reform." - New York Journal of Books"Eye-opening." - Shepherd Express"Debunks myths surrounding mass incarceration." - Isthmus"O'Hear's carefully qualified and explicitly contingent hypothesis enjoys robust support in highly qualified scholarship and in empirical data." - Wisconsin Lawyer

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction 1 Setting the Stage, Meeting the Players2 The Seventies Synthesis3 The Equivocal Assault on Discretion, 1980-19954 The Quest for Improved Community Corrections, 1980-19975 'Truth' and Its Consequences: The Demise of Parole6 The 2s: Managerialism's Modest Comeback7 Wisconsin's War on Drugs8 LessonsNotesIndex