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Race, Incarceration, and American Values

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ISBN-10: 0262123118

ISBN-13: 9780262123112

Edition: 2008

Authors: Glenn C. Loury, Pamela S. Karlan, Tommie Shelby, Lo�c J. D. Wacquant, Deborah Chasman

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The United States, home to five percent of the worlds' population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate--at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising--is almost forty percent greater than our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). More pointedly, it is 6.2 times the Canadian rate and 12.3 times the rate in Japan. Economist Glenn Loury argues that this extraordinary mass incarceration is not a response to rising crime rates or a proud success of social policy. Instead, it is the product of a generation-old collective decision to become a more punitive society. He connects this policy to our history of racial oppression, showing that…    
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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/22/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Size: 4.25" wide x 7.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330

Boston University professor Glenn Loury was educated at Northwestern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Loury has taught at Harvard University, Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. He is currently on the commission for the National Academy of Science and was elected vice president of the American Economics Association in 1997. Loury has contributed writing to The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and National Review. He also is an editor for The New Republic. Loury's book "One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America," which won the 1996 American Book Award and the 1996 Christianity…    

Robert C. Post is Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law and Dean of Yale Law School.

Tommie Shelby is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University.

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