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 AwardAn examination of the neoliberal politics of incarceration The growth of mass incarceration in the United States eludes neat categorization as a product of the political Right. Libe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Alternative Criminology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1 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 “Poor Conduct” and the Carceral Cure
- 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 Carceral Epistemology: Knowing the Jail and Governing the Town
- 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