Locked Out - Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy

Zusatztext "The United States stands out among all nations in the world for the large numbers of people it incarcerates, and for then stripping them of the right to vote, sometimes for life. In this brilliant and timely book Manza and Uggen probe the roots of this phenomenon in American history, especially our racial history, and they show us how felon disenfranchisement continues to distort American democracy, and to influence electoral outcomes."--Frances Fox Piven, author of Why Americans Still Don't Vote, And Why Politicians Want It That Way Informationen zum Autor Jeff Manza is Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.Christopher Uggen is Professor of Sociology and McKnight Presidential Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext Locked Out exposes felon disenfranchisement as one of the most important! yet little known! threats to the health of American democracy today. It reveals the centrality of racial factors in the origins of these laws! and their impact on politics! election outcomes! and public policy. Marshalling the first real empirical evidence on the issue to make a case for reform! the authors' path-breaking analysis will inform all future policy and political debates onthe laws governing the political rights of criminals. Zusammenfassung Exposes felon disenfranchisement as one of the most important, yet little known, threats to the health of American democracy. This book reveals the centrality of racial factors in the origins of these laws, and their impact on politics, election outcomes, and public policy.

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• Authors: Jeff Manza, Jeff (Professor of Sociology Manza, Jeff Uggen Manza, Manza Jeff, Christopher Uggen, Christopher (Professor of Sociology Uggen, Uggen Christopher
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2006
• EAN: 9780195149326
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514932-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy; Studies in Crime and Public Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Political structures: democracy, United States of America, USA, Elections & referenda, Offenders, Elections and referenda / suffrage