Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time - Couverture souple

Kilgore, James

 
9781620970676: Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1620970678 ISBN 13 : 9781620970676
Editeur : The New Press, 2015

Synopsis

A brilliant overview of America's defining human rights crisis and a "much-needed introduction to the racial, political, and economic dimensions of mass incarceration" (Michelle Alexander)


Understanding Mass Incarceration offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in place by the world's largest jailer: the United States.


Drawing on a growing body of academic and professional work, Understanding Mass Incarceration describes in plain English the many competing theories of criminal justice-from rehabilitation to retribution, from restorative justice to justice reinvestment. In a lively and accessible style, author James Kilgore illuminates the difference between prisons and jails, probation and parole, laying out key concepts and policies such as the War on Drugs, broken windows policing, three-strikes sentencing, the school-to-prison pipeline, recidivism, and prison privatization. Informed by the crucial lenses of race and gender, he addresses issues typically omitted from the discussion: the rapidly increasing incarceration of women, Latinos, and transgender people; the growing imprisonment of immigrants; and the devastating impact of mass incarceration on communities.


Both field guide and primer, Understanding Mass Incarceration is an essential resource for those engaged in criminal justice activism as well as those new to the subject.

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À propos de l?auteur

James Kilgore is an activist, researcher, and writer based in Urbana, Illinois, where he has lived since paroling from prison in 2009. He is the director of the Challenging E-Carceration project at MediaJustice and the co-director of FirstFollowers Reentry Program in Champaign, Illinois. He is the author of five books, including Understanding E-Carceration and the award-winning Understanding Mass Incarceration (both from The New Press).

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Éditeur
The New Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1620970678
ISBN 13 
9781620970676
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
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Personne responsable
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