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Book SynopsisThe United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1.5 million Americans incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented. The author presents evidence that living in a high-imprisonment neighborhood significantly decreases political participation.
Trade Review"Traci Burch has tackled a public issue that threatens the very basis of democracy-the tendency of criminal convictions to taint the democratic involvement of those left behind-and done so in rigorous and creative ways. Trading Democracy for Justice is a splendid work of social science that will be widely read and cited and whose astonishing findings will expand our attention to the ways incarceration affects people beyond those convicted of crimes." (Katherine Cramer-Walsh, University of Wisconsin-Madison)"
