Mass Imprisonment and the Extended Family

The Social Psychology of Mass Imprisonment

The concept of mass imprisonment emerged at the turn of the 21st century in recognition of the intractable nature of the late modern penal explosion, especially in the USA (Lynch, 2011). What had been perceived in the previous two decades to be a dynamic yet alarming phenomenon – the rapid growth and expansion in the use of incarceration – had now taken on a sense of permanence and immutability...

Drug Policy, Criminal Justice and Mass Imprisonment

Imprisonment

So many medical men in Government service in India of all grades are concerned in prison administration that the publication of this little paper-bound volume by Col. Barker will be very welcome. It is a presentation of the present position with regard to Indian prisons, and a suggestion for future policy and improvements, based on the author's long experience of prison administration in the Ce...

Intergenerational Educational Effects of Mass Imprisonment in America

In some American schools, about a fifth of the fathers have spent time in prison during their child’s primary education. We examine how variation across schools in the aggregation and concentration of the mass imprisonment of fathers is associated with their own children’s intergenerational educational outcomes and ‘‘spills over’’ into the attainments of other students. We assess the associatio...

Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration

tem over the past thirty years transformed the path to adulthood followed by disadvantaged minority men? Certainly the prison boom affected many young black men. The U.S. penal population increased six fold between 1972 and 2000, leaving 1.3 million men in state and federal prisons by the end of the century. By 2002, around 12 percent of black men in their twenties were in prison or jail (Harri...