Caught : : The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics / / Marie Gottschalk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Gottschalk, Marie,
• TeilnehmendeR: Gottschalk, Marie.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (504 p.)

The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and communities and reworks conceptions of democracy, rights, and citizenship-posing a formidable political and social challenge. In Caught, Marie Gottschalk examines why the carceral state remains so tenacious in the United States. She analyzes the shortcomings of the two dominant penal reform strategies-one focused on addressing racial disparities, the other on seeking bipartisan, race-neutral solutions centered on reentry, justice reinvestment, and reducing recidivism.With a new preface evaluating the effectiveness of recent proposals to reform mass incarceration, Caught offers a bracing appraisal of the politics of penal reform.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Part I. The Political Economy of Penal Reform -- Chapter Two. Show Me the Money -- Chapter Three. Squaring the Political Circle -- Chapter Four. What Second Chance? -- Chapter Five. Caught Again -- Part II. The Politics of Race and Penal Reform -- Chapter Six. Is Mass Incarceration the "New Jim Crow"? -- Chapter Seven. What's Race Got to Do with It? -- Part III. The Metastasizing Carceral State -- Chapter Eight. Split Verdict -- Chapter Nine. The New Untouchables -- Chapter Ten. Catch and Keep -- Chapter Eleven. The Prison beyond the Prison -- Chapter Twelve. Bring It On -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index