IDSD 148 : Mass Incarceration and the Black Family

1 in every 100 adults serves time in Federal and State prisons and the current growth of imprisonment has been concentrated among poor minorities and are part of a circular process where the inside and outside of correctional facilities have become increasingly connected. Examines the development of the American penal system and its often-competing goals of justice and punishment and focuses on the urban social, cultural, political, and economic contexts of incarceration