Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Tackles the debate of what is driving mass incarceration in America and assesses the political, social, and economic impact across the 50 states.The U.S. incarcerates four times more people per capita than Australia, five times more than the United Kingdom, six times more than Canada, and eight times more than Germany. The United States contains more ex-prisoners than the entire population of Ireland, and more people with a felony record than the populations of Denmark, Norway, New Zealand and Liberia combined. Why did the United States become the worlds biggest jailer? And, just as importantly, what has it done to us? How has having the worlds biggest population of ex-prisoners shaped us socially, economically, and politically? In this landmark book, Kevin B. Smith explains that the United States became the worlds biggest jailer because politicians wanted to do something about a very real problem with violent crime. That effort was accelerated by a variety of partisan and socio-demographic trends that started to significantly reshape state political environments in the 1980s and 1990s. The force of those trends varied from state to state, but ultimately led to not just historically unprecedented levels of incarceration, but equally unprecedented numbers of ex-prisoners. Serving time behind bars is now a normalized social experienceit affects a majority of Americans directly or indirectly. There is a clear price, a jailers reckoning, to be paid for this. As this book shows, it is a society with declining levels of civic cohesion, reduced economic prospects, and less political engagement. Mass incarceration turns out to be something of a hidden bomb, a social explosion that inflicts enormous civic collateral damage. In this landmark book, Kevin B. Smith explains how the United States became the world's biggest jailer and examines the social, economic, and political costs we all bear as a result. If we're to improve civic cohesion, economic prospects, and political engagement, we must all address this problem. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781538192382

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Smith, Kevin B.

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