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Author Drucker, Ernest M., 1940-

Title A plague of prisons : the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America / Ernest Drucker.

Publication Info. New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2011.

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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  365.975 DRU    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  365.973 D84    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Imprisonment -- United States.
Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States.
ISBN 9781595584977 hardcover alkaline paper $26.95
1595584978 hardcover alkaline paper
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