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1 online resource (368 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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 they come fr |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States
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Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- United States
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Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Social aspects -- United States
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects.
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
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Imprisonment -- Social aspects.
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Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Social aspects.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mauer, Marc
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| ISBN |
9781595587367 |
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1595587365 |
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