Imprisoning Communities : How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse
ISBN: 9780195387209 | 0195387201
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/27/2009
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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 ... MORE
| The Problem of Concentrated Incarceration | p. 3 |
| Incarceration and Crime | p. 15 |
| The Problem of Mass Incarceration Concentrated in Poor Places | p. 49 |
| Communities, Coercive Mobility, and Public Safety | p. 69 |
| Death by a Thousand Little Cuts: Studies of the Impact of Incarceration | p. 93 |
| In Their Own Voices: People in High-Incarceration Communities Talk about the Impact of Incarceration | p. 121 |
| ... MORE | p. 149 |
| Dealing with Concentrated Incarceration: The Case for Community Justice | p. 175 |
| Imagining a Strategy of Community Justice | p. 209 |
| Bibliography | p. 225 |
| Index | p. 249 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Todd R. Clear is a Distinguished Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and founding editor of the journal Criminology & Public Policy. He is the author of eleven books and numerous articles and book chapters on criminal justice issues ranging from corrections and sentencing to community justice.
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