{"product_id":"mass-imprisonment","title":"Mass Imprisonment","description":"`The quite extraordinary phenomenon of mass imprisonment in the USA needs, above all, to be identified. \n\u003cp\u003eDavid Garland and his excellent range of criminological contributors go well beyond this by showing how to start thinking (and arguing) about what these unprecedented statistics might mean for all modern societies′ - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eProfessor Stan Cohen, Department of Sociology, LSE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis major new volume of papers by leading criminologists, sociologists and historians, sets out what is known about the political and penological causes of the phenomenon of mass imprisonment. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMass imprisonment, American-style, involves the penal segregation of large numbers of the poor and minorities. Imprisonment has become a central institution for the social control of the urban poor. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOther countries are now looking to the USA to see what should be learned from this massive and controversial social experiment. This book describes mass imprisonment′s  impact upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture.  This is a book that all penologists  and policy makers should read.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54246793871704,"sku":"9780761973232","price":190.96,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780761973232_d90719d7-6423-4bd6-a515-f7c4ed40a59b.jpg?v=1777786272","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mass-imprisonment","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}