Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences

By David Garland

Book Overview

This volume includes chapters by leading criminologists, sociologists and historians that set out what is known about the political and penological causes of the phenomenon of mass imprisonment. It describes mass imprisonment's impact upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761973249
• ISBN13: 9780761973249
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"