Race to Incarcerate

by Mauer, Marc

• ISBN13: 9781565844292
• ISBN10: 1565844297
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

The assistant director of The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice reform group, analyzes the unprecedented explosion in the prison population during the past 25 years, and examines how the "get tough" movement has taken its most serious toll on African Americans.

Author Biography

Marc Mauer is the assistant director of The Sentencing Project, a national organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes criminal justice reform and the development of alternatives to incarceration. He has served as a consultant to the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the National Institute of Corrections, and the American Bar Association. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Preface	ix
Preface to the Paperback Edition	xi
Introduction: The Race to Incarcerate	1	(14)
The Incarceration ``Experiment''	15	(27)
The Development of the ``Tough on Crime'' Movement	42	(14)
Crime as Politics	56	(25)
The Prison-crime Connection	81	(19)
The Limits of the Criminal Justice System on Crime Control	100	(18)
African Americans and the Criminal Justice System	118	(24)
The War on Drugs and the African American Community	142	(20)
What's Class Got to Do with It?	162	(9)
``Give the Public What It Wants'': Media Images and Crime Policy	171	(7)
Unintended Consequences	178	(11)
A New Direction for a new Century	189	(6)
Index	195