A the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America Drucker, Ernest M. 1940- creator text bibliography nyu New York New Press 2013 monographic eng

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xiv, 258 pages : ill., maps ; 22 cm. When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born. Ernest Drucker's A Plague of Prisons takes the same concepts and tools of public health that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis, and AIDS to make the case that our current unprecedented level of imprisonment has become an epidemic. Drucker passionately argues that imprisonment?originally conceived as a response to the crimes of individuals?has become mass incarceration: a destabilizing force, a plague upon our body. An epidemiological riddle -- Cholera in London : the ghost maps of Dr. Snow -- AIDS : the epidemiology of a new disease -- A different kind of epidemic -- Anatomy of an outbreak : New York's Rockefeller drug laws and the prison pump -- Orders of magnitude : the scale of mass incarceration -- A self-sustaining epidemic -- Chronic incapacitation : the long tail of mass incarceration -- The contagion of punishment : collateral damage to children and families of prisoners -- Ending mass incarceration : a public health model. Ernest Drucker. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Imprisonment United States Encarcelamiento Estados Unidos Imprisonment Social aspects United States Prisión Aspectos sociales Estados Unidos Criminal justice, Administration of Social aspects United States Administración de justicia penal Aspectos sociales Estados Unidos HV 8705 D794p 2013 365/.975 9781595584977 2011002072 DLC 110124 20240202145941.0 16622715 spa