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Author:

Clear, Todd R.

Title:

Imprisoning Communities : how mass incarceration makes disadvantaged neighborhoods worse / Todd R. Clear.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009, c2007

Description:

255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Imprisonment--Social aspects--United States.
Social problems--United States.
Urban poor--United States.
Community-based corrections--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-247) and index.

Contents:

The problem of concentrated incarceration -- Incarceration and crime -- The problem of mass incarceration concentrated in poor places -- Communities, coercive mobility, and public safety -- Death by a thousand little cuts: studies of the impact of incarceration -- In their own voices: people in high-incarceration communities talk about the impact of incarceration -- The impact of incarceration on community safety -- Dealing with concentrated incarceration: the case for community justice -- Appendix: Imagining a strategy of community justice.

Series:

Studies in crime and public policy

ISBN:

0195387201
9780195387209

OCLC:

(OCoLC)264023628

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)