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Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry, Race, and Politics
Contributor(s): Thompson, Anthony C. (Author)
ISBN: 0814783031     ISBN-13: 9780814783030
Publisher: New York University Press
OUR PRICE:   $88.11  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2008
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aAccessible and comprehensive, Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities delves into the most pressing legal issue of prisoner reentry. . . . Thompson provides a much needed look at this dire social issue through an expert legal lens. This is an important book and I highly recommend it to legal scholars, policy makers, criminologists, and concerned citizens.a
--Joan Petersilia, author of "When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry"

"Thompson provides a compelling argument that we cannot understand reentry, and indeed criminal justice policy broadly, without analyzing its racial dimensions. He also provides us with a clear road map that helps us to access the state of reentry today, and what we need to do politically and programatically to develop a system that is committed to both public safety and racial fairness."
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Penology
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Social Science | Criminology
Dewey: 365.647
LCCN: 2007043248
Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.52" W x 9.05" (1.09 lbs) 262 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, African Americans made up approximately twelve percent ofthe United States population but close to forty percent of the United States prison population. Now, in the latter half of the decade, the nation is in the midst of the largest multi-year discharge of prisoners in its history. In Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities, Anthony C. Thompson discusses what is likely to happen to these ex-offenders and why.
For Thompson, any discussion of ex-offender reentry is, de facto, a question of race. After laying out the statistics, he identifies the ways in which media and politics have contributed to the problem, especially through stereotyping and racial bias. Well aware of the potential consequences if this country fails to act, Thompson offers concrete, realizable ideas of how our policies could, and should, change.

Contributor Bio(s): Thompson, Anthony C.: -

Anthony C. Thompson is Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law. He is a former Deputy Public Defender in Contra Costa County, California. He serves on the Board of Directors of the National Council for Crime and Delinquency in Oakland, California, and is Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Reentry Institute of John Jay College in New York City.