Keramet Reiter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society and at the School of Law at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of 23/7 Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the coeditor of Extreme Punishment: Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration, and Solitary Confinement (2015). Dr. Reiter recently won the American Society of Criminology's Ruth Cavan Young Scholar Award.

Series Editor

Henry N. Pontell is a Distinguished Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

"Mass Incarceration provides an accessible, critical overview of contemporary issues in punishment, law, and society. Each chapter begins with a provocative case study and works in a stand-alone manner while still bringing together core research from across the field."--Michelle Brown, University of Tennessee

"This volume presents a thorough and engaging description of the problems of mass incarceration. Reiter presents new material and a new approach."--Hayden Griffin, University of Alabama at Birmingham

"Mass Incarceration offers an insightful treatise into mass incarceration and its often unrecognized contribution to the maintenance of a vast network of 'custodial citizens' within our system of democratic governance."--Edward Rhine, Ohio State University