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

After the War on Crime : : Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction / / ed. by Mary Louise Frampton, Ian Haney Lopez, Jonathan Simon.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Allen, Jessie,
Anderson, Elijah,
Beckett, Katherine,
Clear, Todd R.,
Frampton, Mary Louise,
Godoy, Angelina Snodgrass,
Harris, Kamala D.,
Herbert, Steve,
Jones, Van,
Krisberg, Barry,
Lynch, Mona,
Lyons, William,
López, Gerald P.,
Simon, Jonathan,
Wacquant, Loïc,
HerausgeberIn:
Frampton, Mary Louise,
Lopez, Ian Haney,
Simon, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I Crime, War, and Governance
  • 1 The Place of the Prison in the New Government of Poverty
  • 2 America Doesn’t Stop at the Rio Grande: Democracy and the War on Crime
  • 3 From the New Deal to the Crime Deal
  • 4 The Great Penal Experiment: Lessons for Social Justice
  • Part II A War-Torn Country: Race, Community, and Politics
  • 5 The Code of the Streets
  • 6 The Contemporary Penal Subject(s)
  • 7 The Punitive City Revisited: Th e Transformation of Urban Social Control
  • 8 Frightening Citizens and a Pedagogy of Violence
  • Part III A New Reconstruction
  • 9 Smart on Crime
  • 10 Rebelling against the War on Low-Income, of Color, and Immigrant Communities
  • 11 Of Taints and Time: Th e Racial Origins and Effects of Florida’s Felony Disenfranchisement Law
  • 12 Th e Politics of the War against the Young
  • 13 Transformative Justice and the Dismantling of Slavery’s Legacy in Post-Modern America
  • Afterword: Strategies of Resistance
  • Contributors
  • Index

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