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Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences

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Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences

This 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 poli

Country	USA
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: SAGE Publications Ltd
EAN	9780761973249
Edition	1
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0761973249
Label	SAGE Publications Ltd
Manufacturer	SAGE Publications Ltd
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	192
PublicationDate	2001-07-12
Publisher	SAGE Publications Ltd
Studio	SAGE Publications Ltd
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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