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Why Are So Many Black Men in Prison? : A Comprehensive Account of How and Why the Prison Industry Has Become A Predatory Entity in the Lives of African-American Men, and How Mass Targeting, Criminalization, and Incarceration of Black Male Youth Has Gone Toward Creating the Largest Prison System in the World by Demico Boothe (2007, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFull Surface Publishing, LLC
ISBN-100979295300
ISBN-139780979295300
eBay Product ID (ePID)60321273
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Book TitleWhy Are So Many Black Men in Prison? : A Comprehensive Account of How and Why the Prison Industry Has Become A Predatory Entity in the Lives of African-American Men, and How Mass Targeting, Criminalization, and Incarceration of Black Male Youth Has Gone Toward Creating the Largest Prison System in the World
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicMen's Studies, Penology, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
GenreSocial Science
AuthorDemico Boothe
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight8.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-900788
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal365/.608996073
SynopsisAfrican-American males are being imprisoned at an alarming and unprecedented rate. Out of the more than 11 million black adult males in the U.S. population, nearly 1.5 million are in prisons and jails with another 3.5 million more on probation or parole or who have previously been on probation or parole. Black males make up the majority of the total prison population, and due to either present or past incarceration is the most socially disenfranchised group of American citizens in the country today. This book, which was penned by Boothe while he was still incarcerated, details the author's personal story of a negligent upbringing in an impoverished community, his subsequent engagement in criminal activity (drug dealing), his incarceration, and his release from prison and experiencing of the crippling social disenfranchisement that comes with being an ex-felon. The author then relates his personal experiences and realizations to the seminal problems within the African-American community, federal government, and criminal justice system that cause his own experiences to be the same experiences of millions of other young black men. This book focuses on the totality of how and why the U.S. prison system became the largest prison system in the world, and is filled with relevant statistical and historical references and controversial facts and quotes from notable persons and sources.
LC Classification NumberHV9469.B66 2007
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