TY  - BOOK
AU  - Drucker,Ernest
TI  - A plague of prisons: the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America 
SN  - 9781595584977
U1  - 365/.97 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Distributed by Perseus Distribution
KW  - Imprisonment
KW  - United States
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Emprisonnement
KW  - �Etats-Unis
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Justice p�enale
KW  - Administration
KW  - fast
KW  - ram
N1  - Comprend des r�ef. bibliogr. et un index; 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 relative impact 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
N2  - This books makes the case that our current unprecedented level of imprisonment has become an epidemic—a plague upon our body politic. Ernest Drucker, an internationally recognized public health scholar and researcher, compares mass incarceration to other well-recognized epidemics using basic public health concepts—"prevalence and incidence," "outbreaks," "contagion," "transmission," and "potential years of life lost." He argues that imprisonment--originally conceived as a response to individuals' crimes—has become "mass incarceration": a destabilizing force that undermines the families and communities it targets, damaging the very social structures that prevent crime
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