Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality
by
Sara Wakefield, Christopher Wildeman
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
An unrelenting prison boom, marked by stark racial disparities, pulled a disproportionate number of young black men into prison in the last forty years. In Children of the Prison Boom, Sara Wakefield and Christopher Wildeman draw upon broadly representative survey data and interviews to describe the...