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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
Governing Social Marginality: Welfare, Incarceration, and the Transformation of State Policy
Governing Social Marginality: Welfare, Incarceration, and the Transformation of State Policy
The US criminal justice system has grown at a spectacular pace in recent decades. Between 1980 and 2000, the number of people incarcerated in the United States increased by 300 percent, from 500,000 to nearly 2 million (Sentencing Project, 2000). The share of the population behind bars has also grown rapidly, and the parole and probation populations now include 3.8 million persons. By 1998, nearly 6 million people – almost 3 percent of the adult population – were under some form of correctional supervision (BJS, 1998; Butterfield, 1998). The impact of these developments has fallen disproportionately on young African-Americans and Latinos. By ...
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