Title: Race to incarcerate
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice, Crime prevention, Criminal justice, Administration of, Discrimination in criminal justice administration, Imprisonment, Prison sentences, Rassendiscriminatie, Prisons, Gevangenisstraf, Administration, Crime, Strafrecht, Prejudice, Overheidsbeleid, Politique criminelle, Lutte contre, Criminalité, Punishment, Crimal Law, Justice pénale, Prevention & control, Criminal Law, Criminal law, united states
Places: United States, États-Unis