Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis

Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
ISBN-10
1789604079
ISBN-13
9781789604078
Category
Social Science
Pages
447
Language
English
Published
2020-05-05
Publisher
Verso Books
Author
Christian Parenti

Description

Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America notonly documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing,prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the war oncrime, it also explains the political and economic history behind themassive crackdown. This updated edition includes an afterword on the War on Terror, a meditation on surveillance and the specter of terrorism as they help reanimate the criminal justice attack. Written in vivid prose, Lockdown America willpropel readers toward a deeper understanding of the links between crimeand politics in a period of gathering economic crisis.

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