i will turn it over to larry mead from new york university. he will share information on one particular chapter, chapter four, that we direct your attention to because it is a historical roots chapter that we found to be really important for understanding the breaking the pattern of incarceration to see what had come before. larry: thank you very much. i was honored to serve in this committee and i wanted to

i will turn it over to larry mead from new york university. he will share information on one particular chapter, chapter four, that we direct your attention to because it is a historical roots chapter that we found to be really important for understanding the breaking the pattern of incarceration to see what had come before. larry: thank you very much. i was honored to serve in this committee and i wanted to describe some of the thinking behind chapter four and draw some brief conclusions from that. chapter four is about the political forces behind the prison boom, the reason why we have the sudden break in previous rates of incarceration, when we see a sudden increase in incarceration. our analysis shows that the crime issue emerged as an important national question in the 1960's, intertwined with earlier issues that were related, particularly civil rights. i do not mean that there were earlier discussions of crime in american history. it became an issue again in a somewhat new way in the 1960's. whereas civil rights had been a liberal issue

i will turn it over to larry mead from new york university. he will share information on one particular chapter, chapter four, that we direct your attention to because it is a historical roots chapter that we found to be really important for understanding the breaking the pattern of incarceration to see what had come before. larry: thank you very much. i was honored to serve in this committee and i wanted to describe some of the thinking behind chapter four and draw some brief conclusions from that. chapter four is about the political forces behind the prison boom, the reason why we have the sudden break in previous rates of incarceration, why we see a sudden increase in incarceration. our analysis shows that the crime issue emerged as an important national question in the 1960's, intertwined with earlier issues that were related, particularly civil rights. i do not mean that there were earlier discussions of crime in american history. at various intervals, it was an issue. it became an issue again in a somewhat new way in the 1960's. whereas