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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I - Beyond Doing Time: The Lifetime Consequences of Imprisonment
1 - Invisible Punishment: An Instrument of Social Exclusion
I. BRINGING INVISIBLE PUNISHMENT INTO VIEW
II. THE CONTEXT AND CONSEQUENCES OF INVISIBLE PUNISHMENT
III. THE NEW STRAIN OF INVISIBLE PUNISHMENT
IV. ASSESSING THE IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT OF INVISIBLE PUNISHMENT
V. THE PARADOX OF PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR PUNISHMENT
VI. THE SHIFTING CONTEXT OF PUNISHMENT POLICY
VII. LIMITING THE REACH OF INVISIBLE PUNISHMENT: SOME MODEST SUGGESTIONS
2 - Welfare and Housing—Denial of Benefits to Drug Offenders
A PORTRAIT OF DRUG FELONY OFFENDERS
WELFARE AND FOOD STAMP ELIGIBILITY FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DRUG FELONY CONVICTIONS
THE BAN’S EFFECTS
PUBLIC HOUSING ELIGIBILITY FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DRUG AND CRIMINAL HISTORIES
ADMISSION TO PUBLIC HOUSING
BASES FOR EVICTION
LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION
THE HOUSING LAWS’ EFFECTS
CONCLUSION
3 - Mass Imprisonment and the Disappearing Voters
PART II - Distorting Justice
4 - Incarceration and the Imbalance of Power
INCREASED PROSECUTORIAL POWER
MINIMIZATION OF THE DEFENSE FUNCTION
THE DECLINE OF JUDICIAL DISCRETION
5 - Imprisoning Women: The Unintended Victims of Mass Imprisonment
TRENDS IN WOMEN’S IMPRISONMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
BUILDING CELLS: INVENTING WOMEN’S CORRECTIONS
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: ADULT FEMALE OFFENDERS AND THE U.S. IMPRISONMENT MANIA
WOMEN’S LIVES AND WOMEN’S CRIME
WAR ON DRUGS AS A WAR ON WOMEN
POLICIES THAT INCREASE WOMEN’S IMPRISONMENT
EMERGENCE OF VENGEFUL EQUITY
CONCLUSION
6 - Entrepreneurial Corrections: Incarceration As a Business Opportunity
EARLY DEVELOPMENT: THE PRIVATE PRISON BOOM
THE INDUSTRY MATURES: TROUBLES MULTIPLY
CROSS-FERTILIZATION: ENTREPRENEURIAL CORRECTIONS
CONCLUSION
PART III - Fractured Families
7 - Families and Incarceration
INTRODUCTION
I. COSTS OF INCARCERATION
II. INCARCERATION AND FAMILY ORGANIZATION
III. SOCIAL SILENCE
I V . CONCLUSION
8 - The Social Impact of Mass Incarceration on Women
INTRODUCTION
INCREASING NUMBER OF WOMEN DETAINED BY THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
WOMEN PRISONERS AS PARENTS
THE VICTIMIZATION OF WOMEN
WOMEN AS FAMILY MEMBERS AND COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS
WOMEN AS ANTIPRISON ACTIVISTS
CONCLUSION
9 - Children, Cops, and Citizenship: Why Conservatives Should Oppose Racial Profiling
PART IV - Communities in Crisis
10 - Black Economic Progress in the Era of Mass Imprisonment
INEQUALITY IN INCARCERATION
INCARCERATION AND INVISIBLE INEQUALITY
DOES INCARCERATION INCREASE BLACK-WHITE INEQUALITY?
IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
11 - The Problem with “Addition by Subtraction”: The Prison-Crime Relationship ...
COERCIVE MOBILITY AND CRIME CONTROL
CONCENTRATION OF INCARCERATION
BUILDING BLOCKS OF PUBLIC SAFETY
A COMMENT ON THE COUNTERFACTUAL
PART V - Incarceration As Socially Corrosive
12 - Building a Prison Economy in Rural America
A RURAL GROWTH INDUSTRY
PRISONS AS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: BOOM OR BUST?
NORMAN ROCKWELL MEETS QUENTIN TARANTINO
PERPETUATING RACISM
REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH AND POLITICAL POWER
CONCLUSION
13 - The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Immigration Policy
THE HARSH IMPACT OF 1996 IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION
DRUG POLICY, IMMIGRATION, AND INCARCERATION
THE INTERSECTION OF WELFARE REFORM AND IMMIGRATION POLICIES
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND IMMIGRATION DETENTION
THE IMPACT OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, ON IMMIGRATION POLICY
CONCLUSION
14 - The House of the Dead: Tuberculosis and Incarceration
TUBERCULOSIS AS PUNISHMENT
DRUG RESISTANCE, CHEMOTHERAPY, AND AMPLIFICATION
THE TUBERCULOSIS-PRISON NEXUS: THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA
WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?
EPIDEMIC TUBERCULOSIS AND PENAL POLICY
15 - Media on Prisons: Censorship and Stereotypes
16 - The International Impact of U. S. Policies
THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
THE AMERICAS
THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
THE END OF REHABILITATION?
THE EXTENT OF PRIVATIZATION
THE CASE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
THE UNITED STATES IS UNIQUE
THE U.S. IMPACT
CONCLUSION
Notes
About the Authors
Index
Copyright Page
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