Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences

by David Garland

Book Overview

This major new volume of papers by leading criminologists, sociologists and historians, sets out what is known about the political and penological causes of the phenomenon of mass imprisonment.

Mass imprisonment, American-style, involves the penal segregation of large numbers of the poor and minorities. Imprisonment has become a central institution for the social control of the urban poor.

Other countries are now looking to the USA to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761973249
• ISBN13: 9780761973249
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"