A plague of prisons
Subtitle: the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America
By: Ernest Drucker
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781595584977
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Imprisonment
Description: Ernest Drucker argues that mass incarceration is an epidemic which negatively affects families and neighborhoods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An epidemiological riddle; title: Cholera in London : the ghost maps of Dr. Snow; title: AIDS : the epidemiology of a new disease; title: A different kind of epidemic; title: Anatomy of an outbreak : New York's Rockefeller drug laws and the prison pump; title: Orders of magnitude : the scale of mass incarceration; title: A self-sustaining epidemic; title: Chronic incapacitation : the long tail of mass incarceration; title: The contagion of punishment : collateral damage to children and families of prisoners; title: Ending mass incarceration : a public health model.