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Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

By Meda Chesney-Lind , Marc Mauer

Book information

Publisher
The New Press
Year
2002
ISBN
1565847261, 9781565847262
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
614 kB (628316 bytes)
Pages
355\0
Time added
2015-05-11 12:03:00
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Description

In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far&ndash,reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of “get tough on crime” attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and ’90s, a range of strategies, from “three strikes” and “a war on drugs,” to mandatory sentencing and prison privatization, have resulted in the mass incarceration of American citizens, and have had enormous effects not just on wrongdoers, but on their families and the communities they come from. This book looks at the consequences of these policies twenty years later.

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