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 -- Including Jeremy Travis, Beth Richie, Bruce Western, Todd Clear, Paul Farmer, And Judith Greene -- 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. Together, The Contributors To This Book Define The Boundaries Of A Whole New Field Of Inquiry In Criminal Justice. Book Jacket.--jacket. Beyond Doing Time : The Lifetime Consequences Of Imprisonment. Invisible Punishment : An Instrument Of Social Exclusion / Jeremy Travis -- Welfare And Housing--denial Of Benefits To Drug Offenders / Gwen Rubinstein And Debbie Mukamal -- Mass Imprisonment And The Disappearing Voters / Marc Mauer. Distorting Justice. Incarceration And The Imbalance Of Power / Angela J. Davis -- Imprisoning Women : The Unintended Victims Of Mass Imprisonment / Meda Chesney-lind -- Entrepreneurial Corrections : Incarceration As A Business Opportunity / Judith A. Greene. Fractured Families. Families And Incarceration / Donald Braman -- The Social Impact Of Mass Incarceration On Women / Beth E. Richie -- Children, Cops, And Citizenship : Why Conservatives Should Oppose Racial Profiling / James Forman, Jr. Communities In Crisis. Black Economic Progress In The Era Of Mass Imprisonment / Bruce Western, Becky Pettit, And Josh Guetzkow -- The Problem With Addition By Subtraction : The Prison-crime Relationship In Low-income Communities / Todd R. Clear. Incarceration As Socially Corrosive. Building A Prison Economy In Rural America / Tracy Huling -- The Impact Of Mass Incarceration On Immigration Policy / Teresa Miller -- The House Of The Dead : Tuberculosis And Incarceration / Paul Farmer -- Media On Prisons : Censorship And Stereotypes / Peter Y. Sussman -- The International Impact Of U.s. Policies / Vivien Stern. Marc Mauer And Meda Chesney-lind, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [293]-332) And Index.
Categories:
- Politics & Social Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Criminology
- Social Sciences
Publisher : The New Press
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Language : English
Published :2002-10-10
Number Of Pages : 355
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1565847261
ISBN-13 : 9781565847262
Item weight : 1.08 lb
Dimensions : 1.26 in x 6.3 in x 8.56 in
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