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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808373503321

Titolo

The punitive turn : new approaches to race and incarceration / / edited by Deborah E. McDowell, Claudrena N. Harold, and Juan Battle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8139-3521-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 pages)

Collana

Carter G. Woodson Institute series

Altri autori (Persone)

McDowellDeborah E. <1951->

HaroldClaudrena N

BattleJuan <1968->

Disciplina

365/.608996073

Soggetti

Imprisonment - United States

Corrections - United States

Criminal justice, Administration of - United States

Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States

African American prisoners

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Punishment in Historical Perspective -- Social and Economic Consequences of Punishment -- Race, Prison, and the Aesthetic Imagination -- Life after Prison: Interviews -- Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

(Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy) * Marc Mauer (The Sentencing Project) * Anoop Mirpuri (Portland State University) * Christopher Muller (Harvard University) * Marlon B. Ross (University of Virginia) * Jim Shea (Community Organizer) * Jonathan Simon (University of California-Berkeley) * Heather Ann Thompson (Temple University) * Debbie Walker (The Female Perspective) * Christopher Wildeman (Yale University) * Interviews by Jared Brown (University of Virginia) & Tshepo Morongwa Chéry (University of Texas-Austin).