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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809376103321

Autore

Thompson Anthony C

Titolo

Releasing prisoners, redeeming communities : reentry, race, and politics / / Anthony C. Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8147-8422-4

0-8147-8316-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

365/.6470973

Soggetti

Ex-convicts - United States

Criminals - Rehabilitation - United States

Minorities - United States - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-241) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reentry, race, and stigma -- Media influence on public perceptions of prison life -- Women : the afterthought in reentry planning -- Reentry and housing -- Reentry and health care -- Reentry and unemployment -- Reentry and the political process -- Reentry and parole -- Reentry courts -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century,African Americans made up approximately twelve percent of the United States population but close to forty percent of the United States prison population. Now, in the latter half of the decade, the nation is in the midst of the largest multi-year discharge of prisoners in its history. In Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities , Anthony C. Thompson discusses what is likely to happen to these ex-offenders and why. For Thompson, any discussion of ex-offender reentry is, de facto, a question of race. After laying out the statistics,