Imprisoning communities : how mass incarceration makes disadvantaged neighborhoods worse / Todd R. Clear.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clear, Todd R.

Series:

Studies in crime and public policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imprisonment--Social aspects--United States.

Imprisonment.

Social problems--United States.

Social problems.

Imprisonment--Social aspects.

United States.

Urban poor--United States.

Urban poor.

Physical Description:

xv, 255 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Contents:

1 The Problem of Concentrated Incarceration 3

2 Incarceration and Crime 15

3 The Problem of Mass Incarceration Concentrated in Poor Places 49

4 Communities, Coercive Mobility, and Public Safety 69

5 Death by a Thousand Little Cuts: Studies of the Impact of Incarceration 93

6 In Their Own Voices: People in High-Incarceration Communities Talk about the Impact of Incarceration 121

7 The Impact of Incarceration on Community Safety 149

8 Dealing with Concentrated Incarceration: The Case for Community Justice 175

Appendix Imagining a Strategy of Community Justice 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-247) and index.

ISBN:

9780195305791

0195305795

OCLC:

74915432