Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Imprisoning America : the social effects of mass incarceration / Mary Pattillo, David Weiman, Bruce Western, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages :) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781610446761
  • 1610446763
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imprisoning America.DDC classification:
  • 365/.973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV8705 .I455 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Contributors; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction / Bruce Western, Mary Pattillo, and David Weiman; Part I. Families ; Chapter 2. Incarceration and the Bonds Between Parents in Fragile Families / Bruce Western, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Sara McLanahan; Chapter 3. Fatherhood and Incarceration as Potential Turning Points in the Criminal Careers of Unskilled Men / Kathryn Edin, Timothy J. Nelson, and Rechelle Paranal; Chapter 4. Returning to Strangers: Newly Paroled Young Fathers and Their Children / Anne M. Nurse.
Chapter 5. Children of Incarcerated Parents: Multiple Risks and Children's Living Arrangements / Elizabeth I. Johnson and Jane WaldfogelPart II. Communities ; Chapter 6. Effects of Incarceration on Informal Social Control in Communities / James P. Lynch and William J. Sabol; Chapter 7. Lost Voices: The Civic and Political Views of Disenfranchised Felons / Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza; Chapter 8. Will Employers Hire Former Offenders?: Employer Preferences, Background Checks, and Their Determinants / Harry J. Holzer, Steven Raphael, and Michael A. Stoll; Conclusion.
Item type:
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode
Electronic-Books Electronic-Books OPJGU Sonepat- Campus E-Books EBSCO Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Contributors; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction / Bruce Western, Mary Pattillo, and David Weiman; Part I. Families ; Chapter 2. Incarceration and the Bonds Between Parents in Fragile Families / Bruce Western, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Sara McLanahan; Chapter 3. Fatherhood and Incarceration as Potential Turning Points in the Criminal Careers of Unskilled Men / Kathryn Edin, Timothy J. Nelson, and Rechelle Paranal; Chapter 4. Returning to Strangers: Newly Paroled Young Fathers and Their Children / Anne M. Nurse.

Chapter 5. Children of Incarcerated Parents: Multiple Risks and Children's Living Arrangements / Elizabeth I. Johnson and Jane WaldfogelPart II. Communities ; Chapter 6. Effects of Incarceration on Informal Social Control in Communities / James P. Lynch and William J. Sabol; Chapter 7. Lost Voices: The Civic and Political Views of Disenfranchised Felons / Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza; Chapter 8. Will Employers Hire Former Offenders?: Employer Preferences, Background Checks, and Their Determinants / Harry J. Holzer, Steven Raphael, and Michael A. Stoll; Conclusion.

English.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat-Narela Road, Sonepat, Haryana (India) - 131001

Send your feedback to glus@jgu.edu.in

Hosted, Implemented & Customized by: BestBookBuddies   |   Maintained by: Global Library