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Author Clear, Todd R.

Title Imprisoning communities : how mass incarceration makes disadvantaged neighborhoods worse / Todd R. Clear.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  307.336 C58i 2007    ---  Available
Description xv, 255 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Series Studies in crime and public policy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-247) and index.
Contents The problem of concentrated incarceration -- Incarceration and crime -- The problem of mass incarceration concentrated in poor places -- Communities, coercive mobility, and public safety -- Death by a thousand little cuts: studies of the impact of incarceration -- In their own voices: people in high-incarceration communities talk about the impact of incarceration -- The impact of incarceration on community safety -- Dealing with concentrated incarceration: the case for community justice -- Appendix: Imagining a stragegy of community justice.
Subject Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- United States.
Social problems -- United States.
Urban poor -- United States.
ISBN 0195305795
9780195305791
Standard No. AU@ 000041019116
NZ1 11086763

 
    
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