Race to Incarcerate

Name: Race to Incarcerate
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ISBN: 9781595580221

ISBN-10: 1595580220

ISBN-13: 9781595580221

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Marc Mauer, Sentencing Project (U.S.) Staff

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An updated account of the explosion in America's prison population. In this revised edition of his seminal book on race, class, and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, executive director of one of the United States' leading criminal justice reform organizations, offers the most up-to-date look available at three decades of prison expansion in America. Including newly written material on recent developments under the Bush administration and updated statistics, graphs, and charts throughout, the book tells the tragic story of runaway growth in the number of prisons and jails and the over-reliance on imprisonment to stem problems of economic and social development. Called "sober and…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 4/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.48" wide x 8.19" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English




Introduction : the race to incarcerate



The incarceration "experiment"



The rise of the "tough on crime" movement



Crime as politics



The prison-crime connection



The limits of the criminal justice system on crime control



African Americans and the criminal justice system



The war on drugs and the African American community



What's class got to do with it?



"Give the public what it wants" : media images and crime policy



Consequences : intended and unintended



A new direction for a new century