AMST 1040: Incarcerating the Crisis

Introduction to the guide

This guide contains resources related to the research paper assignment for Jordan Camp's Incarcerating the Crisis Course (AMST 1040), including:

• data on incarceration and incarcerated populations
• reports and visualizations about incarceration in the United States
• databases to find current and historical news coverage of incarceration and policing
• government documents (including congressional records and census data)
• resources for locating online archival materials 
• strategies for locating other primary sources, such as books and films, in CLIO
• further resources
• information on affordable access to course texts via the Library

Book a Consultation with Me: https://marthalibrary.youcanbook.me/​

Image: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1954). The new prison building going up on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y. Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8ae09ee0-a75d-0133-d199-00505686d14e

Slides from my presentation in class on 9/20: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ 1bWGLY7BV8hxTXsFSAi7s-T8CIkV2xdcJWa7KihU3lkg/edit?usp=sharing​