A plague of prisons : the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America /
Drucker, Ernest M., 1940-
A plague of prisons : the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America / Ernest Drucker. - New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2011. - xiv, 226 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An epidemiological riddle -- Cholera in London : the ghost maps of Dr. Snow -- AIDS : the epidemiology of a new disease -- A different kind of epidemic -- Anatomy of an outbreak : New York's Rockefeller drug laws and the prison pump -- Orders of magnitude : the scale of mass incarceration -- A self-sustaining epidemic -- Chronic incapacitation : the long tail of mass incarceration -- The contagion of punishment : collateral damage to children and families of prisoners -- Ending mass incarceration : a public health model.
9781595584977 (hc. : alk. paper) 1595584978 (hc. : alk. paper)
2011002072
015897512 Uk
Imprisonment--United States.
Imprisonment--Social aspects--United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects--United States.
HV8705 / .D78 2011
365/.975
A plague of prisons : the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America / Ernest Drucker. - New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2011. - xiv, 226 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An epidemiological riddle -- Cholera in London : the ghost maps of Dr. Snow -- AIDS : the epidemiology of a new disease -- A different kind of epidemic -- Anatomy of an outbreak : New York's Rockefeller drug laws and the prison pump -- Orders of magnitude : the scale of mass incarceration -- A self-sustaining epidemic -- Chronic incapacitation : the long tail of mass incarceration -- The contagion of punishment : collateral damage to children and families of prisoners -- Ending mass incarceration : a public health model.
9781595584977 (hc. : alk. paper) 1595584978 (hc. : alk. paper)
2011002072
015897512 Uk
Imprisonment--United States.
Imprisonment--Social aspects--United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects--United States.
HV8705 / .D78 2011
365/.975