Imprisoning Communities How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse

Name: Imprisoning Communities How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse
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ISBN: 9780195387209

ISBN-10: 0195387201

ISBN-13: 9780195387209

Edition: 2009

Authors: Todd R. Clear

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At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been more concentrated than in the disadvantaged--and primarily minority--neighborhoods of America's largest urban cities. In the most impoverished places, as much as 20% of the adult men are locked up on any given day, and there is hardly a family without a father, son, brother, or uncle who has not beenbehind bars. While the effects of going to and returning home from prison are well-documented, little attention has been paid to the impact of removal on neighborhoods where large numbers of individuals have been…

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List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Todd R. Clear is Dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. He is the author of Imprisoning Communities and What Is Community Justice? and the founding editor of the journal Criminology & Public Policy .




The Problem of Concentrated Incarceration



Incarceration and Crime



The Problem of Mass Incarceration Concentrated in Poor Places



Communities, Coercive Mobility, and Public Safety



Death by a Thousand Little Cuts: Studies of the Impact of Incarceration



In Their Own Voices: People in High-Incarceration Communities Talk about the Impact of Incarceration



The Impact of Incarceration on Community Safety



Dealing with Concentrated Incarceration: The Case for Community Justice



Imagining a Strategy of Community Justice


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Index