Punishment and inequality in America / Bruce Western.
2007
HV9471 .W47 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
Punishment and inequality in America / Bruce Western.
Author
Western, Bruce, 1964-
ISBN
9780871548955 (pbk. : alk. paper)
087154895X (pbk. : alk. paper)
087154895X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint
New York : Russell Sage, 2007
Language
English
Description
xiv, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
HV9471 .W47 2007
Summary
Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than sevenfold to over two million people, including vastly disproportionate numbers of minorities and people with little education. For some racial and educational groups, incarceration has become a depressingly regular experience, and prison culture and influence pervade their communities. Almost 60 percent of black male high school dropouts in their early thirties have spent time in prison. In Punishment and Inequality in America, sociologist Bruce Western explores the recent era of mass incarceration and the serious social and economic consequences it has wrought. Punishment and Inequality in America dispels many of the myths about the relationships among crime, imprisonment, and inequality. While many people support the increase in incarceration because of reductions in crime in the 1990s, Western shows that the swelling prison population only explains one-tenth of the fall in crime, and has come at a significant cost. Punishment and Inequality in America reveals a strong relationship between incarceration and severely dampened economic prospects for former inmates.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-233) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
pt. I: The scope and causes of the prison boom. Mass imprisonment / with Becky Pettit
Inequality, crime, and the prison boom
The politics and economics of punitive criminal justice
pt. II: The consequences of mass imprisonment. Invisible inequality
The labor market after prison
Incarceration, marriage, and family life / with Leonard Lopoo
Did the prison boom cause the crime drop?
Conclusions.
pt. I: The scope and causes of the prison boom. Mass imprisonment / with Becky Pettit
Inequality, crime, and the prison boom
The politics and economics of punitive criminal justice
pt. II: The consequences of mass imprisonment. Invisible inequality
The labor market after prison
Incarceration, marriage, and family life / with Leonard Lopoo
Did the prison boom cause the crime drop?
Conclusions.