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.
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?An important book. The numbers tell a shocking story."?San Diego Union-Tribune
?Insightful. . . . Sheds new light on the relationship between drug use, sales, arrests, and race."?Emerge
?Race to Incarcerate explains why prisoners have become commodities and why present policies are draining black communities of their young men."?Julian Bond, Chair of the NAACP Board of Directors
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Höhe: 207 mm
Breite: 142 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-1-59558-022-1 (9781595580221)
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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.
