Race To Incarcerate

The Sentencing Project

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2006 | Revised Edition
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-59558-022-1 (ISBN)

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This seminal work documents the enormous financial and human toll of the get tough' movement, and argues for more humane - and productive - alternatives.'

In this revised version of his seminal book on race, class and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, executive director of the United States' leading criminal justice reform organizations, offers the most up-to-date look at three decades of prison expansion in American available. Including newly-written material on recent developments under the Bush administration, and updated statistics, graphs, and charts throughout, the book tells the tragic story of runaway growth in the number of prisons and jails.

Marc Mauer is the executive director of The Sentencing Project, a national organization based in Washington, DC, that promotes criminal justice reform. He is the co-editor (with Meda Chesney-Lind) of Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment and the co-author (with Ashley Nellis) of The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences (all published by The New Press). He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	297 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-59558-022-0 / 1595580220
ISBN-13	978-1-59558-022-1 / 9781595580221
Zustand	Neuware