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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Jail: Managing the Underclass in American Society

The Jail: Managing the Underclass in American Society

Simon, Jonathan
Irwin, John

Paperback

CriminologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0520277341
ISBN13: 9780520277342
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Sep 14 2013
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin argues that rather than controlling the disreputable, jail disorients and degrades these people, indoctrinating new recruits to the rabble class. In a forceful conclusion, Irwin addresses the issue of jail reform and the matter of social control demanded by society. Reissued more than twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Jonathon Simon, The Jail remains an extraordinary account of the role jails play in America's crisis of mass incarceration.

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