A plague of prisons [electronic resource] : the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America / Ernest Drucker.
Drucker, Ernest.
2011
HV8705 .D78 2011eb
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A plague of prisons [electronic resource] : the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America / Ernest Drucker.
Author
Drucker, Ernest.
ISBN
9781595586056 (electronic book)
9781595584977
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New York : New Press, c2011.
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English
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1 online resource (xiv, 226 p.) : ill., maps.
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HV8705 .D78 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
365/.975
Summary
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. Taking the same public health approaches and tools that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis, and AIDS over the intervening one hundred and fifty years, Ernest Drucker makes the case that our current unprecedented level of imprisonment has become an epidemic--a plague upon our body politic. Drucker, an internationally recognized public health scholar and Soros Justice Fellow, spent twenty years treating drug addiction...
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An epidemiological riddle
Cholera in London : the ghost maps of Dr. Snow
AIDS : the epidemiology of a new disease
A different kind of epidemic
Anatomy of an outbreak : New York's Rockefeller drug laws and the prison pump
Orders of magnitude : the relative impact of mass incarceration
A self-sustaining epidemic : modes of reproduction
Chronic incapacitation : the long tail of mass incarceration
The contagion of punishment : collateral damage to children and families of prisoners
Ending mass incarceration : a public health model.

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