LEADER 04692nam 2200697 450 001 9910461026803321 005 20210423192252.0 010 $a0-8135-6559-6 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813565590 035 $a(CKB)3710000000421434 035 $a(EBL)3565198 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001499359 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11874292 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001499359 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11513487 035 $a(PQKB)11065305 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3565198 035 $a(OCoLC)910878855 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse45551 035 $a(DE-B1597)526379 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813565590 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3565198 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11064695 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000421434 100 $a20150624h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPrison and social death /$fJoshua M. Price 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey ;$aLondon, [England] :$cRutgers University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (212 p.) 225 1 $aCritical Issues in Crime and Society 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-6558-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPart I. Elements of Social Death --$t1. Crossing the Abyss: The Study of Social Death --$t2. Natal Alienation --$t3. Humiliation --$tPart II. Method and a History of Social Death --$t4. Dissemblance and Creativity: Toward a Methodology for Studying State Violence --$t5. Racism, Prison, and the Legacies of Slavery --$t6. The Birth of the Penitentiary --$tPart III. Abolition Democracy --$t7. "Doesn't Everyone Know Someone in Prison or on Parole?" --$t8. Spirit Murder: Reentry, Dispossession, and Enduring Stigma --$t9. States of Grace: Social Life against Social Death --$t10. Conclusion: Failure and Abolition Democracy --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aThe United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation in the world. To be sentenced to prison is to face systematic violence, humiliation, and, perhaps worst of all, separation from family and community. It is, to borrow Orlando Patterson's term for the utter isolation of slavery, to suffer "social death." In Prison and Social Death, Joshua Price exposes the unexamined cost that prisoners pay while incarcerated and after release, drawing upon hundreds of often harrowing interviews conducted with people in prison, parolees, and their families. Price argues that the prison separates prisoners from desperately needed communities of support from parents, spouses, and children. Moreover, this isolation of people in prison renders them highly vulnerable to other forms of violence, including sexual violence. Price stresses that the violence they face goes beyond physical abuse by prison guards and it involves institutionalized forms of mistreatment, ranging from abysmally poor health care to routine practices that are arguably abusive, such as pat-downs, cavity searches, and the shackling of pregnant women. And social death does not end with prison. The condition is permanent, following people after they are released from prison. Finding housing, employment, receiving social welfare benefits, and regaining voting rights are all hindered by various legal and other hurdles. The mechanisms of social death, Price shows, are also informal and cultural. Ex-prisoners face numerous forms of distrust and are permanently stigmatized by other citizens around them. A compelling blend of solidarity, civil rights activism, and social research, Prison and Social Death offers a unique look at the American prison and the excessive and unnecessary damage it inflicts on prisoners and parolees. 410 0$aCritical issues in crime and society. 606 $aImprisonment$zUnited States 606 $aPrisoners$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aPrisoners$xDeinstitutionalization$zUnited States 606 $aSocial isolation$zUnited States 606 $aMarginality, Social$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aImprisonment 615 0$aPrisoners$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aPrisoners$xDeinstitutionalization 615 0$aSocial isolation 615 0$aMarginality, Social 676 $a365/.6 700 $aPrice$b Joshua M.$01029870 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461026803321 996 $aPrison and social death$92458038 997 $aUNINA