Our Punitive Society: Race, Class, Gender and Punishment in America

This text identifies the macroeconomic forces relevant to imprisonment--poverty and political powerlessness--and explores viable and humane alternatives to our current incarceration binge.

Titles of related interest available from Waveland Press: Edwards et al., Case Studies in Corrections, Sixth Edition (ISBN 9781478637189) and Olson Jessie, On the Patio: Serving Time in a Women's Correctional Facility (ISBN 9781478638209).