Invisible Punishment (eBook)
by Meda Chesney-Lind, Marc Mauer (Author)
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- 97,437 Words
- 368 Pages
In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of get tough on crime” attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and ’90s, a range of strategies, from three strikes” and a war on drugs,” to mandatory sentencing and prison privatization, have resulted in the mass incarceration of American citizens, and have had enormous effects not just on wrong-doers, but on their families and the communities they come from. This book looks at the consequences of these policies twenty years later.
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- Released: May 10, 2011
- Categories: Education, Science & Nature
- Language: English
- Publisher: The New Press
- ISBN-10: 1595587365
- ISBN-13: 9781595587367
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