A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America

by Ernest Drucker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595588795
• ISBN13: 9781595588791
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"