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Releasing prisoners, redeeming communities [[electronic resource] ] : reentry, race, and politics / / Anthony C. Thompson



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Autore: Thompson Anthony C Visualizza persona
Titolo: Releasing prisoners, redeeming communities [[electronic resource] ] : reentry, race, and politics / / Anthony C. Thompson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
Disciplina: 365/.6470973
Soggetto topico: Ex-convicts - United States
Criminals - Rehabilitation - United States
Minorities - United States - Social conditions
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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,
Titolo autorizzato: Releasing prisoners, redeeming communities  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-8422-4
0-8147-8316-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451365103321
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