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Titolo: |
After the war on crime : race, democracy, and a new reconstruction / / edited by Mary Louise Frampton, Ian Haney Lopez, and Jonathan Simon
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York University Press, c2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina: | 364.973 |
Soggetto topico: | Crime - Government policy - United States |
Crime - Political aspects - United States | |
Criminal justice, Administration of - United States | |
Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States | |
Altri autori: |
FramptonMary Louise
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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... |
Titolo autorizzato: | After the war on crime ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8147-2782-4 |
0-8147-2850-2 | |
81-472-7824-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825159503321 |
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