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Author:
Wade-Olson, Jeremiah, author.
Title:
Punishing the vulnerable : discrimination in American prisons / Jeremiah Wade-Olson.
Publisher:
Praegeran imprint ABC-CLIO, LLC
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xxvii, 167 pages ; 25 cm
Subject:
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
Imprisonment--United States.
Criminals--United States--Social conditions.
Prisoners--United States--Social conditions.
Alternatives to imprisonment--United States.
Alternatives to imprisonment.
Criminals--Social conditions.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Imprisonment.
Prisoners--Social conditions.
United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: America's prisons: a portrait of the vulnerable -- "Crime" and moral panics -- Discretion and punishment -- Punishing the poor -- Punishing the sick -- Punishing race -- Punishing immigrants -- Punishing drug use -- Punishing families -- Instead of prisons.
ISBN:
144085808X
9781440858086
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1081336683
LCCN:
2018058134
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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