Prison and Social Death / / Joshua M. Price.
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 for the utter isolation of slave...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Elements of Social Death
- 1. Crossing the Abyss: The Study of Social Death
- 2. Natal Alienation
- 3. Humiliation
- Part II. Method and a History of Social Death
- 4. Dissemblance and Creativity: Toward a Methodology for Studying State Violence
- 5. Racism, Prison, and the Legacies of Slavery
- 6. The Birth of the Penitentiary
- Part III. Abolition Democracy
- 7. "Doesn't Everyone Know Someone in Prison or on Parole?"
- 8. Spirit Murder: Reentry, Dispossession, and Enduring Stigma
- 9. States of Grace: Social Life against Social Death
- 10. Conclusion: Failure and Abolition Democracy
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author