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Understanding Mass Incarceration
Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time | James Kilgore
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We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, and impact of our criminal justice system?Understanding Mass Incarceration offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in place by the world's largest jailer: the United States. Drawing on a growing body of academic and professional work, Understanding Mass Incarceration describes in plain English the many competing theories of criminal justice—from rehabilitation to retribution, from restorative justice to justice reinvestment. In a lively and accessible style, author James Kilgore illuminates the difference between prisons and jails, probation and parole, laying out key concepts and policies such as the War on Drugs, broken windows policing, three-strikes sentencing, the school-to-prison pipeline, recidivism, and prison privatization. Informed by the crucial lenses of race and gender, he addresses issues typically omitted from the discussion: the rapidly increasing incarceration of women, Latinos, and transgender people; the growing imprisonment of immigrants; and the devastating impact of mass incarceration on communities. Both field guide and primer, Understanding Mass Incarceration will be an essential resource for those engaged in criminal justice activism as well as those new to the subject.
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Davidtk20
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Kilgore highlights the major issues with mass incarceration; how it came to be, the movements and coalitions formed to end it and the steps on how those ends can be met. He doesn‘t delve much into any subtopic so if you need just a primer on this issue, this is a good starting point.

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8little_paws
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Super informative, easy to read, and comprehensive. Read this as one of the five #literatureforjustice books the national book foundation put together and I'm so glad I did. A terrific companion to the new Jim crow.

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8little_paws
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Would anyone want to do a read along of the 5 books in the Literature for Justice program?

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