| Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment Contributor(s): Chesney-Lind, Meda (Editor), Mauer, Marc (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1565848489 ISBN-13: 9781565848481 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: A TROUBLING LOOK AT THE WIDE-RANGING CONSEQUENCES OF MASS INCARCERATION. Over a quarter of the adult population in America has criminal records on file with federal or state criminal justice agencies. Invisible Punishment is the first comprehensive examination of the hidden ramifications of conviction for inmates, ex-felons, their families and the communities they come from. Here, leading scholars and advocates bring to light a host of little-known "invisible punishments, " from disenfranchisement and ineligibility for welfare benefits, public housing and employment opportunities, to price gouging by phone companies with prison contracts, gender imbalance in the inner-city neighborhoods from which prisoners are disproportionately drawn, and a generation of children with incarcerated parents. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology - Political Science - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 365.6 |
| LCCN: 2002141430 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.26" W x 7.48" (0.89 lbs) 355 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 from. This book looks at the consequences of these policies twenty years later. |