The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America by Todd R. Clear, Natasha A. Frost

The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America Todd R. Clear, Natasha A. Frost ebook
Page: 269
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780814717196
Publisher: New York University Press

That collateral damage, as well, has been disproportional—accentuated by the fact that AA and whites use illegal drugs in the same percentages but AA shoulder the burden of punishment. Given that The main reason why mass incarceration exists — despite well-known solutions — is that few Americans consider it a real “problem.” Only a Some citizens feel concerned, but many think that draconian punishments are “just deserts,” a public safety imperative or both. Apr 16, 2014 - We also talk to Professor Natasha A. Apr 11, 2007 - The rise of the "mass incarceration state" during this period and the fact that most prison inmates are poor, uneducated and have black or brown skin must be analyzed within this context, Loury argued during the 2007 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at In Loury's first lecture, "Ghettos, Prisons and Racial Backlash," he focused on the historical, political and sociological role that race has played in the post-1970 transformation of America's punishment policies. The punishment imperative : the rise and failure of mass incarceration in America by Clear, Todd R., author. Released 2013-12-06 and fewer borrowers. 5 days ago - As Beth (Richie) and Liat (Ben Moshe) have said, the carceral state extends from drug testing of welfare recipients to questions about arrests on college applications to the criminalization of mental illness to the punishment But we know how to do it because as Danielle Sered of Common Justice has said: the biggest and most successful alternative to incarceration program in the United States is whiteness… The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure. Dec 6, 2013 - The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America. May 13, 2014 - The rational animal : how evolution made us smarter than we think by Kenrick, Douglas T. "As home values continue to rise, the national negative equity rate continued to fall in the . If the conversation is, in fact, about justice (and it should be), then surely there is a way to lay out the harms of false accusations of rape and their contributions to the epidemic of mass incarceration without doing so at the expense of our sisters. Mar 27, 2014 - She's the co-author of The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America. May 30, 2014 - How can we, if it's failing us from every angle? For some of us, conversations about sexual violence do not move beyond such a limiting format (talk), so the extended imperative is to have discussions to entice debate. Jan 9, 2014 - A big picture message offered in Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow is that the war on drugs, a key part of the larger era of mass incarceration, has devastated the lives and futures of African American males in ways that are nearly incomprehensible. Frost, author of the book The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America, about America's addiction with prisons and exactly how much it is costing us. Racial discrimination is often used to explain the fact that 1 percent of American adults is behind bars and that we're the only Western democracy not to have abolished the death penalty. Released 2013-12-06 12:33:07 GMT: 3 months ago. Http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/77/510036/295365602/KERA_295365602.mp3].