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Understanding mass incarceration : a people's guide to the key civil rights struggle of our time / by Kilgore, James William, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Part one: The basics of mass incarceration. A snapshot of the system -- Building popular support for growing the prison system -- "Lock 'em up and throw away the key" : the rise of mass incarceration -- Part two: The many faces of "tough on crime." …”
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Witness in the era of mass incarceration : discovering the ethical prison / by Larson, Doran, 1957-

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College in Prison : Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration. by Karpowitz, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Landscapes. BPI and Mass Incarceration; Chapter 3. Going to Class. Reading Crime and Punishment; Chapter 4. …”
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A Plague of Prisons : the Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America. by Drucker, Ernest M., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; 1 An Epidemiological Riddle; 2 Cholera in London; 3 AIDS; 4 A Different Kind of Epidemic; 5 Anatomy of an Outbreak; 6 Orders of Magnitude; 7 A Self-Sustaining Epidemic; 8 Chronic Incapacitation; 9 The Contagion of Punishment; 10 Ending Mass Incarceration; Afterword to the Paperback Edition; Notes; Index.…”
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Invisible men : mass incarceration and the myth of black progress / by Pettit, Becky, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Invisible men -- Enumerating inequality -- Under surveillance -- Illusions of progress -- Democracy in the age of mass incarceration -- Other casualties of mass incarceration -- Establishing justice.…”
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The Prison School : Educational Inequality and School Discipline in the Age of Mass Incarceration. by Simmons, Lizbet

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Too Easy to Keep : Life-Sentenced Prisoners and the Future of Mass Incarceration. by Herbert, Steve

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The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / by Alexander, Michelle

The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / by Alexander, Michelle

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Marking time : art in the age of mass incarceration / by Fleetwood, Nicole R.

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Marking time : art in the age of mass incarceration / by Fleetwood, Nicole R.

Downsizing prisons : how to reduce crime and end mass incarceration / by Jacobson, Michael, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : bloated prisons -- Mass incarceration -- Unintended consequences -- A new reality for prison systems -- Why prison growth does not reduce crime -- Why parole and probation policies need to change -- Success stories -- Downsizing prisons.…”
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Relocating authority : Japanese Americans writing to redress mass incarceration / by Shimabukuro, Mira

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America's jails : the search for human dignity in an age of mass incarceration / by Jeffreys, Derek S., 1964-

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American Mass Incarceration and Post-Network Quality Television : Captivating Aspirations / by Flamand, Lee A.

Table of Contents: “…The Captivating Aspirations of Post-Network Quality Television in the Age of Mass Incarceration: An Introduction --…”
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Addicted to rehab : race, gender, and drugs in the era of mass incarceration / by McKim, Allison

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Slouching toward tyranny : mass incarceration, death sentences and racism / by Ingle, Joseph B. (Joseph Burton), 1946-

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The feminist war on crime the unexpected role of women's liberation in mass incarceration by Gruber, Aya

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From the war on poverty to the war on crime : the making of mass incarceration in America / by Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Origins of mass incarceration --…”

Addicted to rehab : race, gender, and drugs in the era of mass incarceration / by McKim, Allison

Inside private prisons : an American dilemma in the age of mass incarceration / by Eisen, Lauren-Brooke

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From the war on poverty to the war on crime : the making of mass incarceration in America / by Hinton, Elizabeth Kai, 1983-

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In Their Names The Untold Story of Victims' Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety. by Anderson, Lenore

Table of Contents: “…How the Call for Victims' Rights Led to Mass Incarceration -- Part II: The Hierarchy of Harm -- 3. …”
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Imprisoning communities : how mass incarceration makes disadvantaged neighborhoods worse / by Clear, Todd R.

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Prison break : why conservatives turned against mass incarceration / by Dagan, David, Teles, Steven Michael

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After life imprisonment : reentry in the era of mass incarceration / by Liem, Marieke

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The punishment imperative : the rise and failure of mass incarceration in America / by Clear, Todd R., Frost, Natasha A., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The beginning of the end of the punishment imperative -- The contours of mass incarceration -- The punishment imperative as a grand social experiment -- The policies of the punishment imperative -- Two views on the objectives of the punishment imperative -- Assessing the punishment imperative -- Dismantling the punishment imperative.…”
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Philosophy imprisoned : the love of wisdom in the age of mass incarceration /

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Imprisoning America : the social effects of mass incarceration /

From slave ship to Supermax : mass incarceration, prisoner abuse, and the new neo-slave novel / by Alexander, Patrick Elliot, 1983-

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Death and other penalties : philosophy in a time of mass incarceration /

Table of Contents: “…Racism and Derrida's Theologico-Political Sovereignty -- Making Death a Penalty: Or, Making "Good" Death a "Good" Penalty -- Death Penalty "Abolition" in Neoliberal Times: The SAFE California Act and the Nexus of Savings and Security -- On the Inviolability of Human Life -- Rethinking Power and Responsibility -- Punishment, Desert, and Equality: A Levinasian Analysis -- Prisons and Palliative Politics -- Sovereignty, Community, and the Incarceration of Immigrants -- Without the Right to Exist: Mass Incarceration and National Security -- Prison Abolition and a Culture of Sexual Difference -- Isolation and Resistance -- Statement on Solitary Confinement -- The Violence of the Supermax: Toward a Phenomenological Aesthetics of Prison Space -- Prison and the Subject of Resistance: A Levinasian Inquiry -- Critical Theory, Queer Resistance, and the Ends of Capture.…”
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A country called prison : mass incarceration and the making of a new nation / by Looman, Mary D., Carl, John D.

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Wisconsin sentencing in the tough-on-crime era : how judges retained power and why mass incarceration happened anyway / by O'Hear, Michael, 1968-

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America's urban crisis and the advent of color-blind politics : education, incarceration, segregation, and the future of U.S. multiracial democracy

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We were eight years in power : an American tragedy by Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Table of Contents: “…Notes from the seventh year : The black family in the age of mass incarceration --…”

Do prisons make us safer? : the benefits and costs of the prison boom

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Christian Morality : an Interdisciplinary Framework for Thinking about Contemporary Moral Issues. by Sutton, Geoffrey W.

Table of Contents: “…Jesus, empire, and Christian ethics: implications for the moral critique of mass incarceration in the United States /…”
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Social policy & social justice / Social policy and social justice

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Work out of place

Table of Contents: “…Labor: the Hidden Factor behind Mass Incarceration USA -- and Decarceration? /…”
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Barriers to reentry? : the labor market for released prisoners in post-industrial America

Table of Contents: “…The regime of mass incarceration : a labor market perspective /…”
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