Bruce Western is Assistant Professor of Sociology and a faculty associate of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University.
11 E-böcker av Bruce Western
Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration & Committee on Law and Justice: Growth of Incarceration in the United States
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States more than quadrupled during the last four decades. The U.S. penal population of 2.2 million …
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Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration & Committee on Law and Justice: Growth of Incarceration in the United States
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States more than quadrupled during the last four decades. The U.S. penal population of 2.2 million …
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€76.63
Bruce Western: Between Class and Market
In the United States, less than one worker in five is currently in a labor union, while in Sweden, virtually the entire workforce is unionized. Despite compelling evidence for their positive effects, …
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Gresham M. Sykes: The Society of Captives
The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison. Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the C …
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Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on the Best Practices for Implementing Decarceration as a Strategy to Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19 in Correctional Facilities: Decarcerating Correctional Facilities during COVID-19
The conditions and characteristics of correctional facilities – overcrowded with rapid population turnover, often in old and poorly ventilated structures, a spatially concentrated pattern of releases …
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€70.62
Jeremy Travis & Bruce Western: Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice
How to envision a justice system that combines the least possible punishment with the greatest possible healing, from an all-star cast of contributors “An extraordinary and long overdue collection of …
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€28.99
Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on Reducing Racial Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System: Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice
The history of the U.S. criminal justice system is marked by racial inequality and sustained by present day policy. Large racial and ethnic disparities exist across the several stages of criminal leg …
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€52.63
Bruce Western: Punishment and Inequality in America
Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than seven-fold to over two million people, including vastly disproportionate numbers of minorities and peopl …
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€35.83
Mary Pattillo & David Weiman: Imprisoning America
Over the last thirty years, the U.S. penal population increased from around 300, 000 to more than two million, with more than half a million prisoners returning to their home communities each year. W …
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€38.40
David B. Grusky & Bruce Western: Great Recession
Officially over in 2009, the Great Recession is now generally acknowledged to be the most devastating global economic crisis since the Great Depression. As a result of the crisis, the United States l …
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€60.62
Bruce Western: Homeward
In the era of mass incarceration, over 600, 000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In these circumstanc …
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€38.19
