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Caught : The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics /

The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and com...

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Autor principal: Gottschalk, Marie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition
  • Chapter One. Introduction
  • Part I. The Political Economy of Penal Reform
  • Chapter Two. Show Me the Money
  • Chapter Three. Squaring the Political Circle
  • Chapter Four. What Second Chance?
  • Chapter Five. Caught Again
  • Part II. The Politics of Race and Penal Reform
  • Chapter Six. Is Mass Incarceration the "New Jim Crow"?
  • Chapter Seven. What's Race Got to Do with It?
  • Part III. The Metastasizing Carceral State
  • Chapter Eight. Split Verdict
  • Chapter Nine. The New Untouchables
  • Chapter Ten. Catch and Keep
  • Chapter Eleven. The Prison beyond the Prison
  • Chapter Twelve. Bring It On
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index