The United States of Incarceration: The Criminal Justice Assault on Minorities, the Poor, and the Mentally Ill

by Tim Anderson

Book Overview

When police agencies began grabbing more power in the 1960s, it began a vicious cycle of relying on imprisonment to solve socio-political, financial, and mental health problems. The reality is that this approach hasn't worked, and it's actually diminished our quality of freedom. Meanwhile, police officers have begun to look at citizens not as people to serve and protect but as enemies. Tim Anderson takes an in-depth look into how the misguided prison-industrial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1491746262
• ISBN13: 9781491746264
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"