Mercy and Mass Incarceration: Augustinian Reflections on "The New Jim Crow"
A literary criticism for Michelle Alexander's book "The New Jim Crow" is presented. Topics discussed include portrayal of American criminal justice, may have reflected causation and not coincidence, in the book; academic, political, and popular sensitivity toward the harshness and rac...
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| 格式: | 電子 Article |
| 語言: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2018
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The journal of religion
Year: 2018, 卷: 98, 發布: 2, Pages: 192-223 |
| Further subjects: | B
PRISONS & society
B ALEXANDER, Michelle, 1967- B Mass Incarceration B IMPRISONMENT rates B NEW Jim Crow, The (Book) B Social aspects |
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| 總結: | A literary criticism for Michelle Alexander's book "The New Jim Crow" is presented. Topics discussed include portrayal of American criminal justice, may have reflected causation and not coincidence, in the book; academic, political, and popular sensitivity toward the harshness and racial disparities of American criminal justice and the book's diagnosis of individual and social evil as a spiritual disorder that illuminates the factors driving mass incarceration. |
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| ISSN: | 1549-6538 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/696227 |
