Inhaltsangabe
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.
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Deborah E. McDowell, Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute and Professor of English at the University of Virginia, USA is the author of ""The Changing Same"": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory.
Claudrena N. Harold, Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia, USA is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942.
Juan Battle, Professor of Sociology, Public Health, and Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center, USA is coeditor of Free at Last? Black America in the Twenty-First Century.
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