After the war on crime race, democracy, and a new reconstruction
Since the 1970's, Americans have witnessed a pyrrhic war on crime, with sobering numbers at once chilling and cautionary. Our imprisoned population has increased five-fold, with a commensurate spike in fiscal costs that many now see as unsupportable into the future. As American society confront...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press
c2008.
New York, NY : [2008] |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009803298106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Introduction; Part I: Crime, War, and Governance; The Place of the Prison in the New Government of Poverty; America Doesn't Stop at the Rio Grande: Democracy and the War on Crime; From the New Deal to the Crime Deal; The Great Penal Experiment: Lessons for Social Justice; Part II: A War-Torn Country: Race, Community, and Politics; The Code of the Streets; The Contemporary Penal Subject(s); The Punitive City Revisited: The Transformation of Urban Social Control; Frightening Citizens and a Pedagogy of Violence; Part III: A New Reconstruction; Smart on Crime
- Rebelling against the War on Low-Income, of Color, and Immigrant Communities Of Taints and Time: The Racial Origins and Effects of Florida's Felony Disenfranchisement Law; The Politics of the War against the Young; Transformative Justice and the Dismantling of Slavery's Legacy in Post-Modern America; Afterword: Strategies of Resistance; Contributors; Index
