Race to Incarcerate

by Mauer, Marc

• ISBN13: 9781595580221
• ISBN10: 1595580220
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-15
• Publisher: W.W Norton & Company

Summary

In this revised edition of his seminal book on race, class, and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, executive director of one of the United States' leading criminal justice reform organizations, offers the most up-to-date look available at three decades of prison expansion in America.Including newly written material on recent developments under the Bush administration and updated statistics, graphs, and charts throughout, the book tells the tragic story of runaway growth in the number of prisons and jails and the over-reliance on imprisonment to stem problems of economic and social development. Called "sober and nuanced" by Publishers Weekly , Race to Incarcerate documents the enormous financial and human toll of the "get tough" movement, and argues for more humane'”and productive'”alternatives.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Preface	ix
Preface to the Second Edition	xi
Introduction: The Race to Incarcerate	1	(15)
The Incarceration ``Experiment''	16	(24)
The Rise of the ``Tough on Crime'' Movement	40	(15)
Crime as Politics	55	(37)
The Prison-crime Connection	92	(21)
The Limits of the Criminal Justice System on Crime Control	113	(17)
African Americans and the Criminal Justice System	130	(27)
The War on Drugs and the African American Community	157	(20)
What's Class Got to Do with It?	177	(10)
``Give the Public What It Wants'': Media Images and Crime Policy	187	(8)
Consequences: Intended and Unintended	195	(13)
A New Direction for a New Century	208	(9)
Notes	217	(14)
Index	231