Imprisoning communities : how mass incarceration makes disadvantaged neighborhoods worse /

At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been more concentrated than in the disadvantaged--and primarily minority--neighborhoods of America's largest urban...

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Clear, Todd R.
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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Zusammenfassung:
At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been more concentrated than in the disadvantaged--and primarily minority--neighborhoods of America's largest urban cities. In the most impoverished places, as much as 20% of the adult men are locked up on any given day, and there is hardly a family without a father, son, brother, or uncle who has not been behind bars. While the effects of going to and returning home from prison are well-documented, little attention
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1 online resource (274 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-247) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-988555-9
0-19-538720-1
9786611163129
0-19-804167-5
1-4356-0573-X
1-281-16312-0
0-19-972823-2
Schlagworte:
Imprisonment > Social aspects > United States.
Social problems > United States.
Urban poor > United States.
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