Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse

by Todd R. Clear

Book Overview

At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been more concentrated than in the disadvantaged--and primarily minority--neighborhoods of America's largest urban cities. In the most impoverished places, as much as 20% of the adult men are locked up on any given day, and there is hardly a family without a father, son,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195387201
• ISBN13: 9780195387209
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"