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Race, incarceration, and American values / Glenn C. Loury.

Title
Race, incarceration, and American values / Glenn C. Loury.
Author
Loury, Glenn C.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

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  • Karlan, Pamela S.
  • Wacquant, Loïc J. D.
  • Shelby, Tommie, 1967-
Description
86 p.; 19 cm.
Summary
"The United States, home to 5 percent of the world's population, now houses 25 percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate is almost 40 percent greater than our nearest competitors (the Banamas, Belarus, and Russia). It is 6.2 times the Canadian rate and 12.3 times the rate in Japan." "Economist Glenn C. Loury argues that this extraordinary mass incarceration is not a response to rising crime rates or a proud success of social policy, but the product of a generation-old collective decision to become a more punitive society. He connects this policy to our history of racial oppression, showing that the punitive turn in American politics and culture emerged in the post-civil rights years and has today become the main vehicle for the reproduction of racial hierarchies." "Scholars Pamela S. Karlan, Tommie Shelby, and Loic Wacquant respond to Loury's arguments and explore further the impact of mass incarceration."--Jacket.
Series Statement
A Boston review book
Subject
  • Prisons and race relations > United States
  • Prisoners > United States
  • Race discrimination > United States
  • Imprisonment > United States
  • Criminal justice, Administration of > United States
  • Justice, Administration of > United States
  • Crime and race > United States
  • United States > Race relations
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
Note
  • "Based on the 2007 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford."
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I. Race, incarceration, and American values -- II. Forum -- Pamela S. Karlan -- Loïc Wacquant -- Tommie Shelby -- About the contributors.
ISBN
  • 9780262123112 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0262123118 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781435662889 (electronic bk.)
LCCN
^^2008022921
OCLC
  • 216938331
  • SCSB-10208473
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library