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The Punitive Turn explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration, as well as its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the exacting toll that incarceration takes on inmates, their families, their communities, and society at large, the volume’s contributors investigate the causes of the unbridled expansion of incarceration in the United States. Experts from multiple scholarly disciplines offer fresh research on race and inequality in the criminal justice system and the effects of mass incarceration on minority groups' economic situation and political inclusion. In addition, practitioners and activists from the Sentencing Project, the Virginia Organizing Project, and the Restorative Community Foundation, among others, discuss race and imprisonment from the perspective of those working directly in the field. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, the essays included in the volume provide an unprecedented range of perspectives on the growth and racial dimensions of incarceration in the United States and generate critical questions not simply about the penal system but also about the inner workings, failings, and future of American democracy.

Contributors: Ethan Blue (University of Western Australia) * Mary Ellen Curtin (American University) * Harold Folley (Virginia Organizing Project) * Eddie Harris (Children Youth and Family Services) * Anna R. Haskins (University of Wisconsin–Madison) * Cheryl D. Hicks (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) * Charles E. Lewis Jr. (Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy) * Marc Mauer (The Sentencing Project) * Anoop Mirpuri (Portland State University) * Christopher Muller (Harvard University) * Marlon B. Ross (University of Virginia) * Jim Shea (Community Organizer) * Jonathan Simon (University of California–Berkeley) * Heather Ann Thompson (Temple University) * Debbie Walker (The Female Perspective) * Christopher Wildeman (Yale University) * Interviews by Jared Brown (University of Virginia) & Tshepo Morongwa Chéry (University of Texas–Austin)

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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. iii-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Foreword: Challenging Mass Incarceration
  2. pp. vii-xiii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. xv
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-25
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  1. 1. Punishment in Historical Perspective
  1. “Please Hear Our Cries”
  2. pp. 29-44
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  1. From Researching the Past to Reimagining the Future
  2. pp. 45-72
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  1. “Bright and Good Looking Colored Girl”
  2. pp. 73-107
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  1. Abject Correction andPenal Medical Photographyin the Early Twentieth Century
  2. pp. 108-130
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  1. Mass Incarceration, Prisoner Rights,and the Legacy of the RadicalPrison Movement
  2. pp. 131-155
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  1. 2. Social and Economic Consequences of Punishment
  1. Economic and Relational Penaltiesof Incarceration
  2. pp. 159-176
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  1. Implications of Mass Imprisonment forInequality among American Children
  2. pp. 177-191
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  1. The “Hard Back” of Mass Incarceration
  2. pp. 192-209
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  1. 3. Race, Prison, and the Aesthetic Imagination
  1. Rage against the Machine
  2. pp. 213-235
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  1. Law and Dis/Order
  2. pp. 236-262
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  1. 4. Life after Prison:Interviews
  1. Jim Shea
  2. pp. 265-278
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  1. Harold Folley
  2. pp. 279-289
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  1. Eddie Harris
  2. pp. 290-300
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  1. Debbie Walker
  2. pp. 301-314
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 315-318
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 319-335
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