Modern British history (Oxford, England)United KingdomHistory20th CenturyPrisonsPrisoners
From hyper-incarceration to mass-incarceration? Race and the prison boom of the 1990s.
Matteo Tiratelli
Published: 202510.1093/tcbh/hwaf022
Abstract
Histories of mass incarceration in Britain are normally structured around a moment of rupture in the early 1990s, when penal populism took off and prison numbers started to climb. But for Britain's black and Irish communities, expansive incarceration…
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