A Plague of Prisons : the Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America.

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, tuberculosi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Drucker, Ernest M., 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New Press, The, 2013.
Subjects:
Imprisonment > United States.
Imprisonment > Social aspects > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Social aspects > United States.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
Emprisonnement > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Social aspects
Imprisonment
Imprisonment > Social aspects
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; 1 An Epidemiological Riddle; 2 Cholera in London; 3 AIDS; 4 A Different Kind of Epidemic; 5 Anatomy of an Outbreak; 6 Orders of Magnitude; 7 A Self-Sustaining Epidemic; 8 Chronic Incapacitation; 9 The Contagion of Punishment; 10 Ending Mass Incarceration; Afterword to the Paperback Edition; Notes; Index.

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