A plague of prisons : the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America / / Ernest Drucker

• Autore: Drucker Ernest
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 365/.975
• Soggetto topico: Imprisonment - United States; Imprisonment - Social aspects - United States; Criminal justice, Administration of - Social aspects - United States
• Note generali: Originally published in 2011.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments; 1 An Epidemiological Riddle; 2 Cholera in London; 3 AIDS; 4 A Different Kind of Epidemic; 5 Anatomy of an Outbreak; 6 Orders of Magnitude; 7 A Self-Sustaining Epidemic; 8 Chronic Incapacitation; 9 The Contagion of Punishment; 10 Ending Mass Incarceration; Afterword to the Paperback Edition; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born. Ernest Drucker's A Plague of Prisons takes the same concepts and tools of public health that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis, and AIDS to make the case that our current unprecedented level of imprisonment has become an epidemic. Drucker passionately argues that imprisonment?originally conceived as a response to the crimes of individuals?has become mass incarceration: a destabilizing force, a plague upon our body
• Titolo autorizzato: A plague of prisons
• ISBN: 9781595589538; 1595589538
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817910603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II