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Title
Mass incarceration / Keramet Reiter.
Imprint
New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Description
xxii, 153 pages ; 21 cm.
Series
Keynotes in criminology and criminal justice series.
Formatted Contents Note
The exceptions to every rule: constitutional exemptions and limitations
The prison within the prison: mental illness and punitive tools of control
The gift that keeps on giving: collateral consequences and expanded punishments
The silenced majority: voting rights and prison-based gerrymandering
Prisons for profit: privatization and the prison industrial complex.
The prison within the prison: mental illness and punitive tools of control
The gift that keeps on giving: collateral consequences and expanded punishments
The silenced majority: voting rights and prison-based gerrymandering
Prisons for profit: privatization and the prison industrial complex.
Summary
"In this brief, timely text, Keramet Reiter explores the least visible, but arguably most important, characteristics of mass incarceration in the United States: the systematic constriction of prisoners' constitutional rights; the treatment of the mentally ill in prison; the long-term consequences of having served time in prison; the problem of prisoner disenfranchisement; and the privatization of multiple aspects of the prison industry. Each chapter begins with a narrative account of one individual's experience within the prison system, drawn from actual cases and recent events that frame the history, themes, and core ethical questions addressed in that chapter." -- Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Available in Other Form
Online version: Reiter, Keramet. Mass incarceration. New York : Oxford University Press, 2017
Call Number
KF9223 .R455 2018
Language
English
ISBN
9780190272531 (paperback)
0190272538 (paperback)
0190272538 (paperback)
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