TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thompson,Anthony C.
TI  - Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry, Race, and Politics 
SN  - 9780814783030
AV  - HV9275 .T56 2008 
U1  - 365/.6470973 
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Rehabilitation
KW  - United States
KW  - Ex-convicts
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - LAW / Criminal Law / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - US
KW  - change
KW  - could
KW  - into
KW  - look
KW  - policies
KW  - reentry
KW  - should
N1  - restricted access
N2  - In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century,African Americans made up approximately twelve percent ofthe United States population but close to forty percent of the United States prison population. Now, in the latter half of the decade, the nation is in the midst of the largest multi-year discharge of prisoners in its history. In Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities, Anthony C. Thompson discusses what is likely to happen to these ex-offenders and why.For Thompson, any discussion of ex-offender reentry is, de facto, a question of race. After laying out the statistics, he identifies the ways in which media and politics have contributed to the problem, especially through stereotyping and racial bias. Well aware of the potential consequences if this country fails to act, Thompson offers concrete, realizable ideas of how our policies could, and should, change
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814784228
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814784228/original
ER  -