Race, Incarceration, and American Values

by Glenn C. Loury

Book Overview

Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.

The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate--at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising--is almost forty percent greater than our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). More pointedly, it is 6.2 times the Canadian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262123118
• ISBN13: 9780262123112
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.7" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher