Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

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In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far,reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of get tough on crime attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and 90s, a range of strategies, from three strikes and a war on drugs, to mandatory sentencing and prison privatization, have resulted in the mass incarceration of American citizens, and have had enormous effects not just on wrongdoers, but on their families and the communities they come from. This book looks at the consequences of these policies twenty years later.

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A compelling case that an over reliance on incarceration has taken a heavy toll in the form of collateral consequences . . . by some of the best thinkers in the fields of criminal justice and penology.

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Marc Mauer is the assistant director of The Sentencing Project, a national organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes criminal justice reform. He is the author of Race to Incarcerate.
Meda Chesney-Lind is a former vice president of the American Society of Criminology, a professor of womens studies at the University of Hawaii, and the author of the award winning Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice.