Invisible Punishment

by Mauer, Marc

• ISBN13: 9781565848481
• ISBN10: 1565848489
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

A troubling look at the wide-ranging consequences of mass incarceration. Over a quarter of the adult population in America has criminal records on file with federal or state criminal justice agencies. Invisible Punishment is the first comprehensive examination of the hidden ramifications of conviction for inmates, ex-felons, their families and the communities they come from. Here, leading scholars and advocates bring to light a host of little-known "invisible punishments," from disenfranchisement and ineligibility for welfare benefits, public housing and employment opportunities, to price gouging by phone companies with prison contracts, gender imbalance in the inner-city neighborhoods from which prisoners are disproportionately drawn, and a generation of children with incarcerated parents. Contributors include Donald Braman, Meda Chesney-Lind, Todd R. Clear, Angela J. Davis, Paul Farmer, James Forman Jr., Judith A. Greene, Josh Guetzkow, Tracy Huling, Marc Mauer, Teresa Miller, Debbie Mukamal, Becky Pettit, Beth Richie, Gwen Rubinstein, Vivien Stern, Peter Y. Sussman, Jeremy Travis, and Bruce Western.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Beyond Doing Time: The Lifetime Consequences of Imprisonment	p. 13
Invisible Punishment: An Instrument of Social Exclusion	p. 15
Welfare and Housing--Denial of Benefits to Drug Offenders	p. 37
Mass Imprisonment and the Disappearing Voters	p. 50
Distorting Justice	p. 59
Incarceration and the Imbalance of Power	p. 61
Imprisoning Women: The Unintended Victims of Mass Imprisonment	p. 79
Entrepreneurial Corrections: Incarceration As a Business Opportunity	p. 95
Fractured Families	p. 115
Families and Incarceration	p. 117
The Social Impact of Mass Incarceration on Women	p. 136
Children, Cops, and Citizenship: Why Conservatives Should Oppose Racial Profiling	p. 150
Communities in Crisis	p. 163
Black Economic Progress in the Era of Mass Imprisonment	p. 165
The Problem with "Addition by Subtraction": The Prison-Crime Relationship in Low-Income Communities	p. 181
Incarceration As Socially Corrosive	p. 195
Building a Prison Economy in Rural America	p. 197
The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Immigration Policy	p. 214
The House of the Dead: Tuberculosis and Incarceration	p. 239
Media on Prisons: Censorship and Stereotypes	p. 258
The International Impact of U.S. Policies	p. 279
Notes	p. 293
About the Authors	p. 333
Index	p. 337
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