ABSTRACT
The theme of this book is the rise of incapacitation as a central way of responding to criminal behavior. The concept of incapacitation is approached from various perspectives, ranging from incapacitation through mass incarceration of convicts in the United States to the administrative obstruction to restart businesses by people who appear to have been involved in crime, by refusing them the necessary licenses. In this concluding chapter we will attempt to summarize the contents of this book, pull the various lines together and discuss the issues that have been addressed. We will also continue our exploration of the concept of “incapacitation,” while taking into account all the different perspectives that have been included in this book. We have divided the various chapters in four sections: incapacitation by detention, the incapacitative element in the control over behaviors of offenders, incapacitation through disqualifying (former) offenders from returning in jobs and activities that pose unacceptable risks of re-offending, and a last section containing a chapter on the effects of incapacitation.
