Daedalus 139:3 (Summer 2010) - On Mass Incarceration

On Mass Incarceration

Contents:

Introduction: The challenge of mass incarceration in America
Glenn C. Loury and Bruce Western

Incarceration & social inequality
Bruce Western and Becky Pettit

Punishment's place: the local concentration of mass incarceration
Robert J. Sampson and Charles Loeffler

The paradox of women's imprisonment
Candace Kruttschnitt

The contradictions of juvenile crime & punishment
Jeffrey Fagan

Cell blocks & red ink: mass incarceration, the great recession & penal reform
Marie Gottschalk

Class, race & hyperincarceration in revanchist America
Loïc Wacquant

Clearing the “troubled assets” of America's punishment bubble
Jonathan Simon

American imprisonment in comparative perspective
Nicola Lacey

Toward fewer prisoners & less crime
Mark A.R. Kleiman

The dangers of Pyrrhic victories against mass incarceration
Robert Weisberg and Joan Petersilia

Crime, inequality & social justice
Glenn C. Loury


poetry


A Wasp Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison
Poem by Etheridge Knight

cruelty. don't talk to me about cruelty
Poems by Lucille Clifton