Prison and Social Death /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Price, Joshua M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social isolation.
Prisoners > Social conditions.
Prisoners > Deinstitutionalization.
Marginality, Social.
Imprisonment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Isolement social > États-Unis.
Prisonniers > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
Marginality, Social > United States.
Social isolation > United States.
Prisoners > Deinstitutionalization > United States.
Prisoners > United States > Social conditions.
Imprisonment > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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