"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.
Contributors: Ethan Blue (University of Western Australia) *
Mary Ellen Curtin (American University) * Harold Folley (Virginia
Organizing Project) * Eddie Harris (Children Youth and Family
Services) * Anna R. Haskins (University of Wisconsin-Madison) *
Cheryl D. Hicks (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) *
Charles E. Lewis Jr. (Congressional Research Institute for Social
Work and Policy) * Marc Mauer (The Sentencing Project) * Anoop
Mirpuri (Portland State University) * Christopher Muller (Harvard
University) * Marlon B. Ross (University of Virginia) * Jim Shea
(Community Organizer) * Jonathan Simon (University of
California-Berkeley) * Heather Ann Thompson (Temple University) *
Debbie Walker (The Female Perspective) * Christopher Wildeman (Yale
University) * Interviews by Jared Brown (University of Virginia)
& Tshepo Morongwa Chery (University of Texas-Austin)
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