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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2008
• 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
• Soggetto non controllato: After; Crime; Despite; beyond; dangerous; declare; impact; inaccurate; incident; over; rates; reaches; reveals; statistics; that; this
• Altri autori: FramptonMary Louise Haney-LópezIan SimonJonathan
• 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.: 996571867103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno