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Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
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Artikel-Nr:
9781844672493
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.07.2008
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Christian Parenti
Gewicht:
494 g
Format:
233x154x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Christian Parenti is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York (CUNY), a Contributing Editor to the Nation, and the author of five books.
Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America notonly documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, afortified border, and the federalization of the war on crime, it also explains thepolitical and economic history behind the massive crackdown. This fully updatedand expanded edition includes an afterword on the War on Terror, a meditationon surveillance and the specter of terrorism as they help reanimate the criminaljustice attack. Written in vivid prose, Lockdown America will propel readerstoward a deeper understanding of the links between crime and politics in a periodof gathering economic crisis.