Drucker, Ernest M.,  1940- <br/><br/>
A plague of prisons :  the epidemiology of mass incarceration in America / 
Ernest Drucker. 
 - New York :  New Press :  Distributed by Perseus Distribution,  2011. 
 - xiv, 226 p. :  ill., maps ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> An epidemiological riddle  --  Cholera in London : the ghost maps of Dr. Snow  --  AIDS : the epidemiology of a new disease  --  A different kind of epidemic  --  Anatomy of an outbreak : New York's Rockefeller drug laws and the prison pump  --  Orders of magnitude : the scale of mass incarceration  --  A self-sustaining epidemic  --  Chronic incapacitation : the long tail of mass incarceration  --  The contagion of punishment : collateral damage to children and families of prisoners  --  Ending mass incarceration : a public health model. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781595584977 (hc. : alk. paper) 1595584978 (hc. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011002072 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015897512  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Imprisonment--United States.<br/>Imprisonment--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV8705  / .D78 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>365/.975