Michael A Stoll

Teaching Recent Global History: Dialogues Among Historians, Social Studies Teachers and Students (Transforming Teaching)

Teaching Recent Global History explores innovative ways to teach world history, beginning with the early 20th century. The authors’ unique approach unites historians, social studies teachers, and educational curriculum specialists to offer historically rich, pedagogically innovative, and academicall...

Barriers to Reentry? The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-industrial America

With the introduction of more aggressive policing, prosecution, and sentencing since the late 1970s, the number of Americans in prison has increased dramatically. While many have credited these “get tough” policies with lowering violent crime rates, we are only just beginning to understand the broad...

Do Prisons Make Us Safer?: The Benefits and Costs of the Prison Boom

The number of people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails more than quadrupled between 1975 and 2005, reaching the unprecedented level of over two million inmates today. Annual corrections spending now exceeds 64 billion dollars, and many of the social and economic burdens resulting from mass inca...

The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and Politics of Place

This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public ...

Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

Between 1975 and 2007, the American incarceration rate increased nearly fivefold, a historic increase that puts the United States in a league of its own among advanced economies. We incarcerate more people today than we ever have, and we stand out as the nation that most frequently uses incarceratio...

Falling Uphill by Scott Michael Stoll (2008-11-30)

Race, Space and Youth Labor Markets

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.