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After the war on crime : race, democracy, and a new reconstruction /

Since the 1970s, Americans have witnessed a pyrrhic war on crime, with sobering numbers at once chilling and cautionary. Our imprisoned population has increased five-fold, with a commensurate spike in fiscal costs that many now see as unsupportable into the future. As American society confronts a mu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Frampton, Mary Louise, Haney-López, Ian, Simon, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Crime, War, and Governance
  • 1. Place of the Prison in the New Government of Poverty / Loic Wacquant
  • 2. America Doesn't Stop at the Rio Grande: Democracy and the War on Crime / Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
  • 3. From the New Deal to the Crime Deal / Jonathan Simon
  • 4. Great Penal Experiment: Lessons for Social Justice / Todd R. Clear
  • pt. II War-Torn Country: Race, Community, and Politics
  • 5. Code of the Streets / Elijah Anderson
  • 6. Contemporary Penal Subject(s) / Mona Lynch
  • 7. Punitive City Revisited: The Transformation of Urban Social Control / Steve Herbert / Katherine Beckett
  • 8. Frightening Citizens and a Pedagogy of Violence / William Lyons
  • pt. III New Reconstruction
  • 9. Smart on Crime / Kamala D. Harris
  • 10. Rebelling against the War on Low-Income, of Color, and Immigrant Communities / Gerald P. Lopez
  • 11. Of Taints and Time: The Racial Origins and Effects of Florida's Felony Disenfranchisement Law / Jessie Allen
  • 12. Politics of the War against the Young / Barry Krisberg
  • 13. Transformative Justice and the Dismantling of Slavery's Legacy in Post-Modern America / Mary Louise Frampton
  • Afterword: Strategies of Resistance / Van Jones.