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Carceral con : the deceptive terrain of criminal justice reform /

"From the beginning, evasions, hedging, deceptive rhetoric, trap doors, backroom reversals, hidden agendas, and slippery 'success' indicators have been built into the misleading and false promises of sweeping criminal justice reform. In the wake of the 2020 protests of racist structur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Whitlock, Kay (Author), Heitzeg, Nancy A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland,California : University of California Press, [2021]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : world-making and "criminal justice reform"
  • Correctional control and the challenge of reform
  • Follow the money
  • Criminalization, policing, and profiling
  • The slippery slope of pretrial reform
  • Courts, sentencing, and "diversion"
  • Imprisonment and release
  • Threshold.