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A plague of prisons, the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America, Ernest Drucker

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Label
A plague of prisons, the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America, Ernest Drucker
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
mapsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
A plague of prisons
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Ernest Drucker
Sub title
the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America
Table of contents
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
Target audience
adult

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