About the publishers and author [0] On WPP Site

Acknowledgements [0] and the Introduction [0] Both on WPP site

Overview: Trends in the Crime Control Industry [0]
On WPP site. Links to these four one-page overviews:

Incarceration [0]; Death Penalty [0]; Private Prisons [0]; The Crime Control Industry & the Economy [0]

The Complete Prison Index 

All the links below will take you to www.prisonpolicy.org [1], where the Prison Index is posted its entirety (except for footnotes).  These links open in a new browser window.

Section I: Crime & Punishment in the U.S. Crime & Public Perception

• Public perception and the crime rate [2]
• Police [3]
• Police and public confidence [4]
• Crime: Victims of Crime: Who is at greatest risk? [5] **Also available here [5]
• Murder: When the murder rate goes up; When the murder rate goes down a little; And when the murder rate goes down a lot; Murder and the death penalty [6]
• Drugs [7]
• Safety [8]
• The Roots of Crime? Guns; Drug and alcohol addiction; Education; Do prisons cause more crime? [9]
• Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System [10] **Also available here [10]
• Death Penalty: Death row demographics; Innocence and the death penalty; Dollars and death [11]

Section II: Incarceration & Its Consequences

• Penal Control in the U.S. Incarceration in the U.S.; Federal prisons [12]
• Variation of Incarceration Rates in the States: Incarceration in New York; Incarceration in Texas; What do we think prisons do? [13]
• America's Prisoners: Who is in prison?; What crimes did they commit?; Who gets sent to prison?; Race [14]
• Behind the Walls: Let them eat...; Prisoner health; Older prisoners; Education programs in prison [15]
• Families of Prisoners: A recidivism study on the impact of visits [16]
• Disenfranchisement: Changing elections; Election 2000 [17]

Section III: The Prison Economy

• Crime Control & the Economy [18]
• Budget Priorities: Education vs. Incarceration [19]
• The Prison Industry: Captive consumers; Employment; Construction; Where are prisons built?; California's prison economy [20]
• Private Prisons: Safety first? [21]
• Prison Labor: Prison labor in the federal prisons; Prison labor in the states [22]
• Prisoners & the Census [23]

Section IV: Global Comparisons Crime and incarceration around the world

• Introduction [24]
• Victimization [25]
• Incarceration [26]
• Finland: Crime control & decarceration [27]
• U.S. vs. South Africa [28]

Where to Go for More Information [29]