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Invisible punishment : the collateral consequences of mass imprisonment / Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind, editors.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Mauer, Marc.
Chesney-Lind, Meda.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Imprisonment--Social aspects--United States.
Imprisonment.
Sentences (Criminal procedure)--Social aspects--United States.
Sentences (Criminal procedure).
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects--United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (368 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c2002.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of ?get tough on crime" attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and '90s, a range of strategies, from ?three strikes" and ?a war on drugs," to mandatory sentencing and prison privatization, have resulted in the mass incarceration of American citizens, and have had enormous effects not just on wrong-doers, but on their families and the communities
Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Beyond Doing Time: The Lifetime Consequences of Imprisonment; 1 Invisible Punishment: An Instrument ofSocial Exclusion; 2 Welfare and Housing-Denial of Benefits to Drug Offenders; 3 Mass Imprisonment and the Disappearing Voters; PART II Distorting Justice; 4 Incarceration and the Imbalance of Power; 5 Imprisoning Women: The Unintended Victims of Mass Imprisonment; 6 Entrepreneurial Corrections: Incarceration As a Business Opportunity; PART III Fractured Families; 7 Families and Incarceration; 8 The Social Impact of Mass Incarceration on Women
9 Children, Cops, and Citizenship: Why Conservatives Should Oppose Racial ProfilingPART IV Communities in Crisis; 10 Black Economic Progress in the Era of Mass Imprisonment; 11 The Problem with "Addition by Subtraction": The Prison-Crime Relationship in Low-Income Communities; PART V Incarceration As Socially Corrosive; 12 Building a Prison Economy in Rural America; 13 The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Immigration Policy; 14 The House of the Dead: Tuberculosis and Incarceration; 15 Media on Prisons: Censorship and Stereotypes; 16 The International Impact of U.S. Policies; Notes; Index
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Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786613794956
9781281999849
1281999849
9781595587367
1595587365
OCLC:
741491940

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