Race to Incarcerate
by Marc Mauer
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In this revised edition of his seminal book on race, class, and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, executive director of one of the United States' leading criminal justice reform organizations, offers the most up-to-date look available at three decades of prison expansion in America.Including newly written material on recent developments under the Bush administration and updated statistics, graphs, and charts throughout, the book tells the tragic story of runaway growth in the number show more of prisons and jails and the overreliance on imprisonment to stem problems of economic and s show lessTags
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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 show more lives in the Washington, D.C., area show less
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- Original publication date
- 1999
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 364.6 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Crime Punishment
- LCC
- HV9950 .M32 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminal justice administration By region or country
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