Race, incarceration, and American values / Glenn C. Loury ; with Pamela Karlan, Loïc Wacquant, and Tomie Shelby.

Race, incarceration, and American values /

Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans. The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate--at 714 per 100,000 residents an...

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Main Author: Loury, Glenn C.
Other Authors: Karlan, Pamela S., Wacquant, Loïc J. D., Shelby, Tommie, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Series:Boston review book.
Subjects:
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.
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