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The public health expert and prison reform activist offers "meticulous analysis" on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration ( The Washington Post ). An internationally recognized public health scholar, Ernest Drucker uses the tools of epidemiology to demonstrate that incarceration in the United States has become an epidemic--a plague upon our body politic. He argues that imprisonment, originally conceived as a response to the crimes of individuals, has become "mass incarceration" a destabilizing force that damages the very social structures that prevent crime. Drucker tracks the phenomenon of mass incarceration using basic public health concepts--"incidence and prevalence," "outbreaks," "contagion," "transmission," "potential years of life lost." The resulting analysis demonstrates that our unprecedented rates of incarceration have the contagious and self-perpetuating features of the plagues of previous centuries. Sure to provoke debate and shift the paradigm of how we think about punishment, A Plague of Prisons offers a novel perspective on criminal justice in twenty-first-century America. "How did America's addiction to prisons and mass incarceration get its start and how did it spread from state to state? Of the many attempts to answer this question, none make as much sense as the explanation found in this] book." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer

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New Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1595588795
ISBN-13
9781595588791
eBay Product ID (ePID)
144228740

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Book Title
Plague of Prisons : the Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
Author
Ernest Drucker
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / General, General, Penology, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Law, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.5 Oz

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Hv9471
Reviews
"With voluminous data and meticulous analysis, [Drucker] persuasively demonstrates in his provocative new book that the unprecedented surge in incarceration in recent decades is a social catastrophe on the scale of the worst global epidemics." –Michelle Alexander, The Washington Post "How did America's addiction to prisons and mass incarceration get its start and how did it spread from state to state? Of the many attempts to answer this question, none make as much sense as the explanation found in [this] book." — Philadelphia Inquirer "Drucker uses the tools of his trade to examine the laws and their consequences...Treating drug addiction as a public-health problem rather than a crime to be punished would go a long way towards making America's poor and minority communities stabler and better." — The Economist "Wonderfully written and packed with insight." —Todd Clear, dean of the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice, "With voluminous data and meticulous analysis, [Drucker] persuasively demonstrates in his provocative new book that the unprecedented surge in incarceration in recent decades is a social catastrophe on the scale of the worst global epidemics." --Michelle Alexander, The Washington Post "How did America's addiction to prisons and mass incarceration get its start and how did it spread from state to state? Of the many attempts to answer this question, none make as much sense as the explanation found in [this] book." — Philadelphia Inquirer "Drucker uses the tools of his trade to examine the laws and their consequences...Treating drug addiction as a public-health problem rather than a crime to be punished would go a long way towards making America's poor and minority communities stabler and better." — The Economist "Wonderfully written and packed with insight." —Todd Clear, dean of the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice, "With voluminous data and meticulous analysis, [Drucker] persuasively demonstrates in his provocative new book that the unprecedented surge in incarceration in recent decades is a social catastrophe on the scale of the worst global epidemics." -Michelle Alexander, The Washington Post "How did America's addiction to prisons and mass incarceration get its start and how did it spread from state to state? Of the many attempts to answer this question, none make as much sense as the explanation found in [this] book." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "Drucker uses the tools of his trade to examine the laws and their consequences...Treating drug addiction as a public-health problem rather than a crime to be punished would go a long way towards making America's poor and minority communities stabler and better." -- The Economist "Wonderfully written and packed with insight." --Todd Clear, dean of the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice
Copyright Date
2013
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
365/.975
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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