The punitive turn : new approaches to race and incarceration /
This collection of essays grew out of a three-day symposium held at the University of Virginia in 2009. In addition, practitioners and activists from the Sentencing Project, the Virginia Organizing Project, and the Restorative Community Foundation discuss the topics.
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2013
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| Series: | Carter G. Woodson Institute series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This collection of essays grew out of a three-day symposium held at the University of Virginia in 2009. In addition, practitioners and activists from the Sentencing Project, the Virginia Organizing Project, and the Restorative Community Foundation discuss the topics. "The Punitive Turn explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration, as well as its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the exacting toll that incarceration takes on inmates, their families, their communities, and society at large, the volume's contributors investigate the causes of the unbridled expansion of incarceration in the United States. Experts from multiple scholarly disciplines offer fresh research on race and inequality in the criminal justice system and the effects of mass incarceration on minority groups' economic situation and political inclusion. In addition, practitioners and activists from the Sentencing Project, the Virginia Organizing Project, and the Restorative Community Foundation, among others, discuss race and imprisonment from the perspective of those working directly in the field. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, the essays included in the volume provide an unprecedented range of perspectives on the growth and racial dimensions of incarceration in the United States and generate critical questions not simply about the penal system but also about the inner workings, failings, and future of American democracy."--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 335 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813935218 0813935210 9781299975392 1299975399 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 08, 2023). |
