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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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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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Mass incarceration and the making of citizens
History of Education, 2013In The Spirit of Laws, Montesquieu famously observed that the legal system of a given state ought to exist in harmony with its overall organisation of power.
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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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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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Locked into Emissions: How Mass Incarceration Contributes to Climate Change
Social Currents, 2021Julius Alexander Mcgee +1 more
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