The Punitive Turn New Approaches to Race and Incarceration |
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| Editor:
| McDowell, Deborah E.
Harold, Claudrena N.
Battle, Juan |
| Series title: | Carter G. Woodson Institute Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-3520-1 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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Explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration, as well as its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the exacting toll that incarceration takes on inmates, their families, their communities, and society at large, the volume's contributors investigate the causes of the unbridled expansion of incarceration in the United States.
Explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration, as well as its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the exacting toll that incarceration takes on inmates, their families, their communities, and society at large, the volume's contributors investigate the causes of the unbridled expansion of incarceration in the United States.