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Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences
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9780761973232
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Sage Publications (CA)
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Encyclopaedias & Reference Works
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The growth of the US prison population is a social phenomenon without precedent. It has increased every year for the last 25 years, producing a rate of imprisonment that is by far the highest of any western democratic nation. There are now 2 million people incarcerated in the USA, 5 times as many as there were in 1973. Other comparable nations lock up their citizens at a rate that is 6 to 10 times lower than that of the USA.Mass imprisonment, American-style, involves the penal segregation of large numbers of the poor and minorities. In a nation where 13% of the population is black 11% Hispanic, the ethnic composition of the prison population is two-thirds minority. 1 out of every 3 young black men aged 20-29 is currently in prison, in jail, on probation or on parole. Imprisonment has become a central institution for the social control of the urban poor, and above all for young black and Hispanic men.America is only now beginning to face up to the consequences of this emerging institution. And other countries are now looking to the USA to see what should be learned from this massive and controversial social experiment. This major new volume of papers by leading criminologists, sociologists and historians, sets out what is known about the political and penological causes of this phenomenon. It describes its impact upon crime, upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture. It is a book that all citizens and policy makers should read.
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