After the War on Crime : Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction.

After the War on Crime : Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction.

Since the 1970s, 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 confronts a mu...

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Main Author: Frampton, Mary Louise
Other Authors: Haney-López, Ian, Simon, Jonathan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Crime > Political aspects > United States.
Crime > Government policy > United States.
Crime > Government policy
Crime > Political aspects
Criminal justice, Administration of
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
LAW / Criminal Law / General
United States
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Table of 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 CommunitiesOf 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.

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