Caught : the prison state and the lockdown of American politics /
"The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders today, yet reforms to reduce the number of people in U.S. jails and prisons have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, a carceral state has sprouted in the shadows of mass imprisonment, extending its reach far beyond the prison ga...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The prison state and the lockdown of American politics
- Show me the money : the great recession and the great confinement
- Squaring the political circle : the new political economy of the carceral state
- What second chance? : reentry and penal reform
- Caught again : justice reinvestment and recidivism
- Is mass incarceration the "new Jim Crow"? : racial disparities and the carceral state
- What's race got to do with it? : bolstering and challenging the carceral state
- Split verdict : the non, non, nons and the "worst of the worst"
- The new untouchables : the war on sex offenders
- Catch and keep : the criminalization of immigrants
- The prison beyond prison : the carceral state and growing political and economic inequalities in the United States
- Bring it on : the future of penal reform, the carceral state, and American politics.