Race To Incarcerate
The Sentencing Project
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The New Press
Published:1st Apr '06
Should be back in stock very soon
In this revised version of his seminal book on race, class and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, executive director of the United States' leading criminal justice reform organizations, offers the most up-to-date look at three decades of prison expansion in American available. Including newly-written material on recent developments under the Bush administration, and updated statistics, graphs, and charts throughout, the book tells the tragic story of runaway growth in the number of prisons and jails.
An important book. The numbers tell a shocking story.”San Diego Union-Tribune
Insightful. . . . Sheds new light on the relationship between drug use, sales, arrests, and race.”Emerge
Race to Incarcerate explains why prisoners have become commodities and why present policies are draining black communities of their young men.”Julian Bond, Chair of the NAACP Board of Directors
ISBN: 9781595580221
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 297g
256 pages
Revised Edition