Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-332) and index.

Per capita, there are more Americans in jail than in any other country in the world that is not experiencing civil war. That this situation has major social and economic consequences for the imprisoned and their families should be obvious, but it also has major intended and unintended (or "collateral") consequences for the society as a whole. Mauer (assistant director of The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice reform organization) and Chesney-Lind (women's studies, U. of Hawaii) present 16 contributions exploring the entire range of these consequences, from the impact of imprisonment on the individual's life history to the impact of American mass imprisonment on the international stage. The essays approach the topic from an array of ideological and theoretical viewpoints, but all are extremely critical of the mass imprisonment regime.
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Beyond doing time: the lifetime consequences of imprisonment — Distorting justice — Fractured families — Communities in crisis — Incarceration as socially corrosive.