| Race to Incarcerate Revised & Updat Edition Contributor(s): Mauer, Marc (Author) |
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ISBN: 1595580220 ISBN-13: 9781595580221 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: An updated account of the explosion in America's prison population. In this revised edition of his seminal book on race, class, and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, executive director of one of the United States' leading criminal justice reform organizations, offers the most up-to-date look available at three decades of prison expansion in America. Including newly written material on recent developments under the Bush administration and updated statistics, graphs, and charts throughout, the book tells the tragic story of runaway growth in the number of prisons and jails and the over-reliance on imprisonment to stem problems of economic and social development. Called "sober and nuanced" by "Publishers Weekly, Race to Incarcerate" documents the enormous financial and human toll of the "get tough" movement, and argues for more humane--and productive--alternatives. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
| Dewey: 364.609 |
| LCCN: 2005054376 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.58" W x 8.16" (0.63 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A stunning examination of how the United States became the incarceration capital of the world, from one of the country's leading experts on sentencing policy, race, and the criminal justice system In this revised edition of his seminal book on race, class, and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, former executive director of one of the United States' leading criminal justice reform organizations, offers the most up-to-date look available at three decades of prison expansion in America. Race to Incarcerate tells the tragic story of runaway growth in the number of prisons and jails and the overreliance on imprisonment to stem problems of economic and social development. Called "sober and nuanced" by Publishers Weekly, Race to Incarcerate documents the enormous financial and human toll of the "get tough" movement, and argues for more humane--and productive--alternatives. |