TY - BOOK ID - 145301467 TI - Imprisoning communities : how mass incarceration makes disadvantaged neighborhoods worse PY - 2007 SN - 0199885559 0195387201 9786611163129 0198041675 143560573X 1281163120 0199728232 PB - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Imprisonment KW - Social problems KW - Urban poor KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145301467 AB - At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been more concentrated than in the disadvantaged--and primarily minority--neighborhoods of America's largest urban cities. In the most impoverished places, as much as 20% of the adult men are locked up on any given day, and there is hardly a family without a father, son, brother, or uncle who has not been behind bars. While the effects of going to and returning home from prison are well-documented, little attention ER -