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Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities – Reentry, Race, and Politics

Autor Anthony C. Thompson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2009
In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, African Americans made up approximately twelve percent of the United States population but close to forty percent of the United States prison population. Now, in the latter half of the decade, the US is in the midst of the largest multi-year discharge of prisoners in its history. In Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities, Anthony C. Thompson discusses what is likely to happen to these ex-offenders and why.For Thompson, any discussion of ex-offender re-entry is, de facto, a question of race. After laying out the statistics, he identifies the ways in which media and politics have contributed to the problem, especially through stereotyping and racial bias. Well aware of the potential consequences if this country fails to act, Thompson offers concrete, realizable ideas of how our policies could, and should, change.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814783214
ISBN-10: 081478321X
Pagini: 262
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: MI – New York University

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction; 1. Reentry, Race and Stigma; 2. Media Influence on Public Perceptions of Prison Life; 3. Women: The Afterthought in Reentry Planning; 4. Reentry and Housing; 5. Reentry and Health Care; 6. Reentry and Unemployment; 7. Reentry and the Political Process; 8. Reentry and Parole; 9. Reentry Courts; ConclusionNotes; Index; About the Author

Recenzii

"Accessible and comprehensive, Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities delves into the most pressing legal issue of prisoner reentry. . . . Thompson provides a much needed look at this dire social issue through an expert legal lens. This is an important book and I highly recommend it to legal scholars, policy makers, criminologists, and concerned citizens." Joan Petersilia, author of When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry“Thompson provides a compelling argument that we cannot understand reentry, and indeed criminal justice policy broadly, without analyzing its racial dimensions.” Marc Mauer, Executive Director, The Sentencing Project“Thompson brilliantly sheds critical light on the insidious racial underpinnings of what may be the most important and understudied criminal justice question of our time.”David Cole, author of No Equal Justice

Notă biografică

Anthony C. Thompson

Descriere

Record numbers of prisoners are being released. Where will they go?