Incarceration and race in Michigan : grounding the national debate in state practice / edited by Lynn Orilla Scott and Curtis Stokes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Lynn O.

Contributor:

Scott, Lynn Orilla, 1950- editor.

Stokes, Curtis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects--Michigan.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Discrimination in justice administration--Michigan.

Discrimination in justice administration.

Corrections--Social aspects--Michigan.

Corrections.

Corrections--Social aspects.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects.

Michigan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 264 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2020]

Summary:

State and local policies are key to understanding how to reduce prison populations. This anthology of critical and personal essays about the need to reform criminal justice policies that have led to mass incarceration provides a national perspective while remaining grounded in Michigan. Major components in this volume include a focus on current research on the impact of incarceration on minority groups, youth, and the mentally ill; and a focus on research on Michigan's leadership in the area of reentry. Changes in policy will require a change in the public's problematic images of incarcerated people. In this volume, academic research is combined with first-person narratives and paintings from people who have been directly affected by incarceration to allow readers to form more personal connections with those who face incarceration. At a time when much of the push to reduce prison populations is focused on the financial cost to states and cities, this book emphasizes the broader social and human costs of mass incarceration.

Contents:

Introduction / Lynn Orilla Scott and Curtis Stokes

Policing black/brown communities inside/outside the United States : neoliberalism and the rise of the : "carceral state" in the twenty-first century / Darryl C. Thomas

Youth of color and Michigan's juvenile justice system / Michelle Weemhoff and Jason Smith

Basketballs can be a bitch! / Martin Vargas

Behind bars : the current state of U.S. prison literature / D. Quentin Miller

Sense of solitary confinement / Phillip "UcciKan" Sample

Solo's life narrative : freedom for me was an evolution, not a revolution / Megan Sweeney

Outside fences : the rewilding of the motor city viewed from a prison / Rand Gould

Criminal justice, disconnected youth and latino males in the United States and in Michigan / Rubén Martinez, Bette Avila, and Barry Lewis

Lox (the Wolverine) : the struggle to express a native american identity in the carceral state / Aaron Kinzel

Mass incarceration and mental illness : addressing the crisis / Carolyn Pratt Van Wyck and Elizabeth Pratt

What works in prisoner reentry : reducing crime, recidivism, and prison populations / Dennis Schrantz

Conclusion

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 1, 2021)

ISBN:

1-62895-377-2

1-60917-614-6

OCLC:

1121284815