Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality
Open Access
- 1 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Contexts
- Vol. 1 (3) , 37-43
- https://doi.org/10.1525/ctx.2002.1.3.37
Abstract
Changes in government policy on crime and punishment have put many poor minority men behind bars, more than their arrest rates would indicate. The growth of the penal system has also obscured the extent of economic inequality and sowed the seeds for greater inequality in the future.Keywords
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