A plague of prisons : the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America / Ernest Drucker.

Author: Drucker, Ernest M., 1940-

Imprint:New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2011.

Descriptionxiv, 226 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Note:An epidemiological riddle -- Cholera in London : the ghost maps of Dr. Snow -- AIDS : the epidemiology of a new disease -- A different kind of epidemic -- Anatomy of an outbreak : New York's Rockefeller drug laws and the prison pump -- Orders of magnitude : the scale of mass incarceration -- A self-sustaining epidemic -- Chronic incapacitation : the long tail of mass incarceration -- The contagion of punishment : collateral damage to children and families of prisoners -- Ending mass incarceration : a public health model.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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