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Description
Who are the punished? What things do they have in common in terms of social class, ethnic/racial, age and gender statuses? There are strong linkages between race, age, and socioeconomic status in the literature.
Texts
The Real War on Crime by Steven R. Donzinger; Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System by Jerome G. Miller; Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis by Elihu Rosenblatt, ed.
From the lecture...
The state of New York created the first prison and the state of New York was also one of the first states to abolish slavery in its quarters. Ironically, on the same day that New York abolished slavery, the state erected its first prison.
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