The jail: managing the underclass in American society.

Washington Monthly | December 1, 1985| | Copyright

THE JAIL

John Irwin's thesis is that American society uses jails to control and segregate the "rebble,' a subset of the poor and disadvantaged. Besides being destitute, the rabble are detached from the conventional social networks and behave in ways that the middle class finds objectionable or threatening. Members of the rabble are jailed not so much because of the seriousness of the crimes they commit as for the offensiveness of their behavior to middle-class sensibilities. Citing the work of Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, authors of Regulating the Poor, ...

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