| Description |
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
0002-7162 ;
v. 651
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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 651.
0002-7162
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| Note |
"January 2014." |
| Contents |
Introduction: Detaining democracy? Criminal justice and American civic life -- The degreee of disadvantage: incarceration and inequality in education -- Consequences of family member incarceration: impacts on civic participation and perceptions of the legitimacy and fairness of government -- Parental incarceration: child homelessness and the invisble consequences of mass imprisonment -- Incarceration and social inequality: challenges and directions for future research -- The criminal justice system and the racialization of perceptions -- Mass imprisonment and trust in the law -- How the criminal justice system educates citizent -- Detention, democracy, and inequality in a divided society -- Effects of imprisonment and community supervision on neighborhood political participation in North Carolina -- Staying out of sight? Concentrated policing and local political action -- Do voting rights notification laws increase ex-felon turnout? -- Classes, races, and marginalized places: notes on the study of democracy's demise -- Ex-felons' organization-based political work for carceral reforms -- Locked in? Conservative reform and the future of mass incarceration -- Civics lessons: how certain schemes to end mass incarceration can fail -- Democracy and the carceral state in America -- Criminal justice processing and the social matrix of adversity -- Incarceration, inequality, and imagining alternatives. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Criminal justice, Administration of. |
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Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Imprisonment -- Social aspects. |
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Imprisonment. |
| Added Author |
Weaver, Vesla M., 1979-
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Hacker, Jacob S.
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Wildeman, Christopher James, 1979-
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| ISBN |
9781483317342 paper |
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148331734X paper |
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9781483317335 cloth |
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1483317331 cloth |
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