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The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America Todd R. Clear, Natasha A. Frost
Publisher: New York University Press

Racial discrimination is often used to explain the fact that 1 percent of American adults is behind bars and that we're the only Western democracy not to have abolished the death penalty. Aug 3, 2013 - The failure on the part of the white liberal class to decry the exploding mass incarceration of the poor, and especially of African-Americans, means that as our empire deteriorates more and more whites will end up in prison alongside those we have condemned because of our The bill expanded from 2 to 58 the number of federal crimes for which the death penalty can be administered. Jul 31, 2006 - The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America. Reprinted by arrangement with New York University Press. Dec 6, 2013 - Excerpted from Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America (footnotes omitted) by Todd R. Dec 6, 2013 - In 1983, came “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform,” the report of President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education. Http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/77/510036/295365602/KERA_295365602.mp3]. It is imperative to their profits that there be a steady supply of new bodies. The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America. Given that The main reason why mass incarceration exists — despite well-known solutions — is that few Americans consider it a real “problem.” Only a Some citizens feel concerned, but many think that draconian punishments are “just deserts,” a public safety imperative or both. Mar 27, 2014 - She's the co-author of The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America. Jan 5, 2014 - In The Punishment Imperative, eminent criminologists Todd R.