Invisible Punishment
The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Criminal law, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Crimes & Criminals, Criminology
| Author: | ISBN: | 9781595587367 | |
| Publisher: | The New Press | Publication: | May 10, 2011 |
| Imprint: | The New Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | |
| ISBN: | 9781595587367 |
| Publisher: | The New Press |
| Publication: | May 10, 2011 |
| Imprint: | The New Press |
| Language: | English |
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-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 wrong-doers, but on their families and the communities they come from. This book looks at the consequences of these policies twenty years later.
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-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 wrong-doers, but on their families and the communities they come from. This book looks at the consequences of these policies twenty years later.
