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After the war on crime : race, democracy, and a new reconstruction / edited by Mary Louise Frampton, Ian Haney Lopez, and Jonathan Simon.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--Government policy--United States.
- Crime.
- Crime--Political aspects--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2008.
- New York, NY : New York University Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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...
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)
- ISBN:
- 9780814727829
- 0814727824
- 9780814728505
- 0814728502
- 9788147278247
- 8147278241
- OCLC:
- 779828077
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