Progressive Punishment : : Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion / / Judah Schept.

Winner, 2017 American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book AwardThe growth of mass incarceration in the United States eludes neat categorization as a product of the political Right. Liberals played important roles in both laying the foundation f...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Alternative Criminology ; 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Neoliberal Geographies of Progressive Punishment
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Capital Departures and the Arrival of Punishment
  • 2. Consolidations and Expansions: Welfare and the “Alternatives” Archipelago
  • PART 2. 2. Consolidations and Expansions: Welfare and the “Alternatives” Archipelago
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 3. “Red Neck” and “Unsocialized,” with “Subcultural Norms and Values”: Constructing Cultural Poverty and Caring Cages
  • 4. “A Lockdown Facility . . . with the Feel of a Small, Private College”
  • PART 3. 4. “A Lockdown Facility . . . with the Feel of a Small, Private College”
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 5. Seeing like a Jail, 1: Evidence and Expertise
  • 6. Seeing like a Jail, 2: Corrections Consulting
  • 7. Governing through Expansion
  • PART 4. Contesting the Carceral
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 8. Organizing against Expansion
  • Conclusion: Nonreformist Reforms and Abolitionist Alternatives
  • Epilogue
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR