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Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Paperback

Series: Chicago Law and Society

CriminologyGeneral LawRegional: South

ISBN10: 022652101X
ISBN13: 9780226521015
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Feb 19 2018
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world--about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people--while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disparities in incarceration, the prison system also reinforces race and class divisions. How and why did we become the world's leading jailer? And what can we, as a society, do about it?

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