On Mass IncarcerationContents:Introduction: The challenge of mass incarceration in America Glenn C. Loury and Bruce WesternIncarceration & social inequality Bruce Western and Becky PettitPunishment's place: the local concentration of mass incarceration Robert J. Sampson and Charles Loeffler The paradox of women's imprisonment Candace Kruttschnitt The contradictions of juvenile crime & punishment Jeffrey FaganCell blocks & red ink: mass incarceration, the great recession & penal reform Marie Gottschalk Class, race & hyperincarceration in revanchist America Loïc Wacquant Clearing the “troubled assets” of America's punishment bubble Jonathan Simon American imprisonment in comparative perspective Nicola Lacey Toward fewer prisoners & less crime Mark A.R. Kleiman The dangers of Pyrrhic victories against mass incarceration Robert Weisberg and Joan Petersilia Crime, inequality & social justice Glenn C. Lourypoetry A Wasp Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison Poem by Etheridge Knight cruelty. don't talk to me about cruelty Poems by Lucille Clifton