Race to incarcerate
Subtitle: a graphic retelling
By: Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer
Contributors: Mauer, Marc
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781595585417
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Graphic novels; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Prison sentences; Imprisonment; Crime prevention; Comic books, strips
Description: "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 of prisons and jails and the overreliance on imprisonment to stem problems of economic and social development. Called "sober and nuanced" by Publishers Weekly, Race to Incarcerate documents the enormous financial and human toll of the "get tough" movement, and argues for more humane--and productive--alternatives."--Publisher's website.
Notes: "Based on Race to Incarcerate by Marc Mauer."
Table of contents: title: Introduction: U.S. prisons from inception to export; title: The rise of the "tough on crime" movement; title: The triumph of "tough on crime"; title: The rock gets rolling; title: Crime as politics: the Reagan-Bush years; title: Kemba Smith: a case of extreme sentencing; title: Crime as politics: the Clinton years; title: Crime as politics: the George W. Bush years; title: The prison-crime connection; title: Color-coded justice; title: The war on drugs and African Americans; title: A new direction.