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2017
The United States has a dual justice system; the FTE sector pays fines, and the low-wage sector goes to jail. One out of three black males spends time in prison in a new Jim Crow system. Poor white men are far less likely to be imprisoned, but they still are a majority of prisoners. This dual system is administered by all levels of government, from the
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The United States has a dual justice system; the FTE sector pays fines, and the low-wage sector goes to jail. One out of three black males spends time in prison in a new Jim Crow system. Poor white men are far less likely to be imprisoned, but they still are a majority of prisoners. This dual system is administered by all levels of government, from the
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From Mass Incarceration to Invisible Incarceration
2021The United States has the highest number of incarcerated people worldwide with a prison population of 2.2 million in 2016 (Gramlich 2018). Mass incarceration is the historically unprecedented number of people incarcerated, and the fact that this population is disproportionately made up of Black and Brown men.
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2013
This work examines the phenomenon of mass incarceration in the United States. Particularly, it analyzes the new Jim Crow analogy, which claims that mass incarceration serves as a form of social control of people of color similar to that which existed during Jim Crow and that is carried out through the War on Drugs.
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This work examines the phenomenon of mass incarceration in the United States. Particularly, it analyzes the new Jim Crow analogy, which claims that mass incarceration serves as a form of social control of people of color similar to that which existed during Jim Crow and that is carried out through the War on Drugs.
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2022
Abstract Critics on both the left and the right increasingly use the term “mass incarceration” to call attention to the unprecedented scale of, and racial inequities in, the U.S. criminal legal system—and the havoc they wreak. This book shows that the criminal legal response to lawbreaking has continued to intensify even as lawmakers ...
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Abstract Critics on both the left and the right increasingly use the term “mass incarceration” to call attention to the unprecedented scale of, and racial inequities in, the U.S. criminal legal system—and the havoc they wreak. This book shows that the criminal legal response to lawbreaking has continued to intensify even as lawmakers ...
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2022
The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other nation. Mass Incarceration Nation offers a novel, in-the-trenches perspective to explain the factors – historical, political, and institutional – that led to the current system of mass imprisonment. The book examines the causes and impacts of mass incarceration on both the
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The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other nation. Mass Incarceration Nation offers a novel, in-the-trenches perspective to explain the factors – historical, political, and institutional – that led to the current system of mass imprisonment. The book examines the causes and impacts of mass incarceration on both the
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Militarism, Mass Surveillance and Mass Incarceration
Socialism and Democracy, 2014On the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, activist-scholar Michelle Alexander counseled her readers to “connect the dots,” and speak out about militarism, mass surveillance and mass incar...
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From Mass Incarceration to Mass Coercion
Monthly Review, 2019From the mid-1960s to the late 2000s, the number of people locked in U.S. prisons and jails, and forced onto parole or probation, increased from less than eight hundred thousand to more than seven million. From the beginning, this explosive growth, known commonly as mass incarceration, has been about containing, stigmatizing, and exploiting the poorest
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Theories of Mass Incarceration
2016This essay focuses in greater detail on sources of the massive increase in US prison admissions in the late 20th century. It argues that subtle, and not so subtle, shifts in policy and practice lead to changes in the way people approach crime prevention and control, and those shifts ultimately explain changing rates of incarceration.
Natasha A. Frost, Todd R. Clear
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Is Mass Incarceration Inevitable?
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019The claim that American justice system engages in "mass incarceration" is now a cliche, albeit one that seems entirely justified by both the number and rate of people who are behind bars. As a result, a large number of states and the federal government have engaged in wide-ranging reform efforts to shorten sentences, divert people from prison, and in
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