Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gottschalk, Marie.

Contributor:

GIC Course Text Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political Science.

Local Subjects:

Political Science.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics 1

Part I The Political Economy of Penal Reform 23

Chapter 2 Show me the Money: The Great Recession and the Great Confinement 25

Chapter 3 Squaring the Political circle: The New Political Economy of the Carceral State 48

Chapter 4 What Second Chance?: Reentry and Penal Reform 79

Chapter 5 Caught Again: Justice Reinvestment and Recidivism 98

Part II The Politics of race and Reform 117

Chapter 6 Is Mass Incarceration the "New Jim Crow"?: Racial Disparities and the Carceral State 119

Chapter 7 What's Race got to do with it?: Bolstering and Challenging the Carceral State 139

Part III The Metastasizing Carceral State 163

Chapter 8 Split Verdict: The Non, Non, Nons, and the "Worst of the Worst" 165

Chapter 9 The New Untouchables: The War on Sex Offenders 196

Chapter 10 Catch and Keep: The Criminalization of Immigrants 215

Chapter 11 The Prison Beyond the Prison: The Carceral State and Growing Political and Economic Inequalities in the United States 241

Chapter 12 Bring it on: The Future of Penal Reform, the Carceral State, and American Politics 258.

ISBN:

9780691164052