LEADER 04082nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910453922803321 005 20211028080436.0 010 $a0-262-27857-X 010 $a1-4356-6288-1 010 $a9780262278577$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a9781435662889$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z0262123118 010 $z9780262123112 010 $a9780262260947$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a0262260948$b(electronic bk.) 035 $a(CKB)1000000000537537 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000231986 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11190829 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000231986 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10209075 035 $a(PQKB)11553706 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338916 035 $a(OCoLC)245529879$z(OCoLC)463189589$z(OCoLC)646755971$z(OCoLC)704033640$z(OCoLC)961527485$z(OCoLC)962724532$z(OCoLC)1037511223 035 $a(OCoLC-P)245529879 035 $a(MaCbMITP)8015 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338916 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10237089 035 $a(OCoLC)245529879 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000537537 100 $a20080527d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRace, incarceration, and American values /$fGlenn C. Loury 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dc2008 215 $a86 pages ; 225 1 $aBoston review book 300 $a"Based on the 2007 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford." 311 1 $a0-262-12311-8 330 $aWhy stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans. The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate--at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising--is almost forty percent greater than our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). More pointedly, it is 6.2 times the Canadian rate and 12.3 times the rate in Japan. Economist Glenn Loury argues that this extraordinary mass incarceration is not a response to rising crime rates or a proud success of social policy. Instead, it is the product of a generation-old collective decision to become a more punitive society. He connects this policy to our history of racial oppression, showing that the punitive turn in American politics and culture emerged in the post-civil rights years and has today become the main vehicle for the reproduction of racial hierarchies. Whatever the explanation, Loury argues, the uncontroversial fact is that changes in our criminal justice system since the 1970's have created a nether class of Americans--vastly disproportionately black and brown--with severely restricted rights and life chances. Moreover, conservatives and liberals agree that the growth in our prison population has long passed the point of diminishing returns. Stigmatizing and confining of a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to Americans. Loury's call to action makes all of us now responsible for ensuring that the policy changes. 410 0$aBoston review book. 606 $aCrime and race$zUnited States 606 $aCriminal justice, Administration of$zUnited States 606 $aImprisonment$zUnited States 606 $aJustice, Administration of$zUnited States 606 $aPrisoners$zUnited States 606 $aPrisons and race relations$zUnited States 606 $aRace discrimination$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCrime and race 615 0$aCriminal justice, Administration of 615 0$aImprisonment 615 0$aJustice, Administration of 615 0$aPrisoners 615 0$aPrisons and race relations 615 0$aRace discrimination 676 $a365/.608996073 700 $aLoury$b Glenn C$0557359 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453922803321 996 $aRace, incarceration, and American values$92466532 997 $aUNINA