Progressive punishment : job loss, jail growth, and the neoliberal logic of carceral expansion /

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The growth of mass incarceration in the United States eludes neat categorization as a product of the political Right. Liberals played important roles in both laying the foundation for and then participating in the conservative tough-on-crime movement that is largely credited with the rise of the pri...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schept, Judah Nathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Series:Alternative criminology series.
Subjects:
Punishment > United States.
Corrections > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Services correctionnels > États-Unis.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
Justice pénale > Administration > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Corrections
Criminal justice, Administration of
Imprisonment
Punishment
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Neoliberal geographies of progressive punishment
  • Capital departures and the arrival of punishment
  • Consolidations and expansions: Welfare and the "alternatives" archipelago
  • Part 2. "Poor conduct" and the carceral cure
  • "Red neck" and "unsocialized," with "subcultural norms and values": Constructing cultural poverty and caring cages
  • "A lockdown facility ... with the feel of a small, private college"
  • Part 3. Carceral epistemology: Knowing the jail and governing the town
  • Seeing like a jail, 1: Evidence and expertise
  • Seeing like a jail, 2: Corrections consulting
  • Governing through expansion
  • Part 4. Contesting the carceral
  • Organizing against expansion
  • Conclusion: Nonreformist reforms and abolitionist alternatives.

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