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by: Marc Mauer See Larger Image List Price: $15.95 Our Price: $10.85 You Save: $5.10 (32%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $6.88 Third Party New Price: $9.25 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 364.60973 EAN: 9781595580221 ISBN: 1595580220 Label: New Press Manufacturer: New Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: April 15, 2006 Publisher: New Press Sales Rank: 416085 Studio: New Press Related Items: Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System Race, Crime, and the Law Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing see more Editorial Review: Product Description: An updated account of the explosion in America's prison population. 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 over-reliance 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. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Many "A-ha" moments This book came to me a bit by accident, and after reading it I have taken what opportunities I have to tell people about it. The author analyzes many, many studies relating to the criminal justice system to shed light on why we have so many people in jail, why a disproportionate number of them are minorities, and why this massive rate of incarceration hasn't been as effective as one would think in reducing crime. Reading it, I had many moments where I had to stop and truly digest what ... Read More Rating: - Many good facts; should be (and isn't) a spellbinder Small, slim book. Easy reading. The author provides numerous endnotes so you can track down the sources. I wanted more sound bites, more pithy quotes, more compelling arguments -- not because the book lacks for substance, but because the author does not present his powerful facts in the persuasive language of a lawyer or pundit. Example: on pp. 156-57, he says, "The folly of using expensive prison space for drug offenders, even traffickers, has been documented in research conducted on ... Read More Rating: - An Important and Thought-Provoking Book I want to recommend this book to anyone who is troubled by the fact that the US is the country with the world's second highest incarceration rate, right after Russia: currently, 1.7 million Americans are in prison or jail. Half of all prison inmates are African American. It is impossible to summarize the author's subtle and well documented analyses in a few sentences. He convincingly shows that these numbers are not, or are not merely, due to high rates of criminal activity, but rather to factors such ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: Social Sciences - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - Criminology Social Sciences - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - Sociology Social Sciences - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS Qualifying Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS