A Plague of Prisons : The Epidemology of Mass Incarceration in America
Ernest. Drucker
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : : New Press, The, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (241 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 An Epidemiological Riddle; 2 Cholera in London: The Ghost Maps of Dr. Snow; 3 AIDS: The Epidemiology of a New Disease; 4 A Different Kind of Epidemic; 5 Anatomy of an Outbreak: New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Prison Pump; 6 Orders of Magnitude: The Relative Impact of Mass Incarceration; 7 A Self-Sustaining Epidemic: Modes of Reproduction; 8 Chronic Incapacitation: The Long Tail of Mass Incarceration; 9 The Contagion of Punishment: Collateral Damage to Children and Families of Prisoners; 10 Ending Mass Incarceration: A Public Health Model; Notes; Index. - When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born. Taking the same public health approaches and tools that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis, and AIDS over the intervening one hundred and fifty years, Ernest Drucker makes the case that our current unprecedented level of imprisonment has become an epidemic?a plague upon our body politic.Drucker, an internationally recognized public health scholar and Soros Justice Fellow, spent twenty years treating drug addiction
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| ISBN | 9781595584977
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