LEADER 03050nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910781911903321 005 20230207225049.0 010 $a0-8147-8422-4 010 $a0-8147-8316-3 024 7 $a10.18574/nyu/9780814784228 035 $a(CKB)1000000000486949 035 $a(EBL)865923 035 $a(OCoLC)779828308 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000235345 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11924756 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000235345 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10243249 035 $a(PQKB)10644889 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865923 035 $a(OCoLC)229447867 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10387 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865923 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10268991 035 $a(DE-B1597)548630 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814784228 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000486949 100 $a20071018d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReleasing prisoners, redeeming communities$b[electronic resource] $ereentry, race, and politics /$fAnthony C. Thompson 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-8321-X 311 $a0-8147-8303-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 189-241) and index. 327 $aReentry, 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. 330 $aIn 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, 606 $aEx-convicts$zUnited States 606 $aCriminals$xRehabilitation$zUnited States 606 $aMinorities$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 610 $aUS. 610 $achange. 610 $acould. 610 $ainto. 610 $alook. 610 $apolicies. 610 $areentry. 610 $ashould. 615 0$aEx-convicts 615 0$aCriminals$xRehabilitation 615 0$aMinorities$xSocial conditions. 676 $a365/.6470973 700 $aThompson$b Anthony C$05193 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781911903321 996 $aReleasing prisoners, redeeming communities$93782263 997 $aUNINA