States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons

by Joy James

Book Overview

The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and immigration detention centers are people of color. Statistics like these, and the often unsafe conditions under which people are imprisoned, make an analysis of incarceration urgent and timely. Using a broad multicultural approach, States...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312217773
• ISBN13: 9780312217778
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.6"