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The United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation in the world. To be sentenced to prison is to face systematic violence, humiliation, and, perhaps worst of all, separation from family and community. It is, to borrow Orlando Patterson's term, to suffer "social death.&q...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Price, Joshua M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Colección:Critical issues in crime and society.
Temas:
Imprisonment > United States.
Prisoners > United States > Social conditions.
Prisoners > Deinstitutionalization > United States.
Social isolation > United States.
Marginality, Social > United States.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
Prisonniers > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Isolement social > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
Imprisonment
Marginality, Social
Prisoners > Deinstitutionalization
Prisoners > Social conditions
Social isolation
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Elements of social death. Crossing the abyss : the study of social death ; Natal alienation ; Humiliation
  • Method and a history of social death. Dissemblance and creativity : toward a methodology for studying state violence ; Racism, prison, and the legacies of slavery ; The birth of the penitentiary
  • Abolition democracy. "Doesn't everyone know someone in prison or on parole?" ; Spirit murder : reentry, disposession, and enduring stigma ; States of grace : social life against social death ; Conclusion : failure and abolition democracy.

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