TY - BOOK AU - Drucker,Ernest M. TI - A plague of prisons: the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America SN - 9781595584977 (hc. : alk. paper) AV - HV8705 .D78 2011 U1 - 365/.975 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - New Press, Distributed by Perseus Distribution KW - Imprisonment KW - United States KW - Social aspects KW - Criminal justice, Administration of N1 - 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 ER -