David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

studies is “Sentence Severity and Crime:
Accepting the Null Hypothesis,” Crime
and Justice 30 (2003): 143.
The charts showing the relationship
between age and criminality are from
Alfred Blumstein, “Prisons: A Policy
Challenge,” in Crime: Public Policies
for Crime Control, James Q. Wilson
and Joan Petersilia, eds. (ICS Press,
2002), 451–82.
Todd Clear’s book on the effects of
mass incarceration on poor places is
Imprisoning Communities: How Mass
Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged
Neighborhoods Worse (Oxford
University Press, 2007). You can find
Clear’s hard-to-get-published paper
“Backfire: When Incarceration Increases