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Record Nr.

UNISA996571867103316

Titolo

After the war on crime [[electronic resource] ] : race, democracy, and a new reconstruction / / edited by Mary Louise Frampton, Ian Haney López, and Jonathan Simon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8147-2782-4

0-8147-2850-2

81-472-7824-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FramptonMary Louise

Haney-LópezIan

SimonJonathan

Disciplina

364.973

Soggetti

Crime - Government policy - United States

Crime - Political aspects - United States

Criminal justice, Administration of - United States

Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Part I: Crime, War, and Governance; The Place of the Prison in the New Government of Poverty; America Doesn't Stop at the Rio Grande: Democracy and the War on Crime; From the New Deal to the Crime Deal; The Great Penal Experiment: Lessons for Social Justice; Part II: A War-Torn Country: Race, Community, and Politics; The Code of the Streets; The Contemporary Penal Subject(s); The Punitive City Revisited: The Transformation of Urban Social Control; Frightening Citizens and a Pedagogy of Violence; Part III: A New Reconstruction; Smart on Crime

Rebelling against the War on Low-Income, of Color, and Immigrant Communities Of Taints and Time: The Racial Origins and Effects of Florida's Felony Disenfranchisement Law; The Politics of the War against the Young; Transformative Justice and the Dismantling of Slavery's Legacy in Post-Modern America; Afterword: Strategies of Resistance; Contributors; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Since the 1970's, 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 multitude of new challenges ranging from terrorism to the disappearance of middle-class jobs to global warming, the war on crime may be up for reconsideration for the first time in a generation or more. Relatively low crime rates indicate that the public mood may be swinging toward declaring victory a...