Mass Imprisonment Social Causes and Consequences [Paperback]

Mass imprisonment, American-style, involves the penal segregation of large numbers of the poor and minorities. Imprisonment has become a central institution for the social control of the urban poor.

Other countries are now looking to the USA to see what should be learned from this massive and controversial social experiment. This book describes mass imprisonment's impact upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture. This is a book that all penologists and poliThis major new volume of papers by leading criminologists, sociologists and historians, sets out what is known about the political and penological causes of the phenomenon of mass imprisonment.

Mass imprisonment, American-style, involves the penal segregation of large numbers of the poor and minorities. Imprisonment has become a central institution for the social control of the urban poor.

Other countries are now looking to the USA to see what should be learned from this massive and controversial social experiment. This book describes mass imprisonment's impact upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture. This is a book that all penologists and poliIntroduction - David Garland
The Meaning of Mass Imprisonment
The Causes and Consequences of Prison Growth in the United States - Marc Mauer
Fear and Loathing in Late Modernity - Jonathan Simon
Reflections on the Cultural Sources of Mass Imprisonment in the United States
Television, Public Space and Prison Population - Thomas Mathiesen
A Commentary on Mauer and Simon
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