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Name: Race to incarcerate
Author: Marc Mauer

Race to Incarcerate provides an updated analysis of the United States’ rapid prison growth over three decades, focusing on race, class, and the criminal justice system. The revised edition includes new material on recent policy developments, updated statistics, graphs and charts, and discusses the financial and human costs of the ‘get‑tough’ movement. Mauer, executive director of a leading criminal‑justice‑reform organization, argues for more humane and productive alternatives to overreliance on imprisonment.

First publish date: 1999

Genre: Crime Fiction/Criminal Underworld

Authors: Marc Mauer

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