William Tregea, Marjorie Larmour"The Prisoners' World: Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge (Issues in Crime & Justice)"
Lexington Books | 2009-02-28 | ISBN: 0739129163 | 364 pages | PDF | 2.15 MB
Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching prison college and volunteer classes in eleven Michigan and California prisons, The Prisoners’ World: Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge strives to make the “prisoners’ voice” come alive for regular college
students.
The book starts off by tracing shifts in social definitions of criminality, and lays out the premises of the U.S. incarceration binge in the 1986 war on drugs laws and subsequent mandatory sentencing and policing.