Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Kirstine.

Series:

Chicago Series in Law and Society Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punishment--Political aspects--Southern States.

Punishment.

Punishment--Economic aspects--Southern States.

Mass incarceration--Southern States.

Mass incarceration.

Convict labor--Southern States.

Convict labor.

Racism in law enforcement--Georgia--History--20th century.

Racism in law enforcement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.

Summary:

The story of how the American South became the most incarcerated region in the world’s most incarcerated nation. Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State examines the evolution of southern criminal punishment from Jim Crow to the dawn of mass incarceration, charting this definitive era of carceral transformation and expansion in the southern United States. The demise of the county chain gang, the professionalization of police, and the construction of large-scale prisons were among the sweeping changes that forever altered the southern landscape and bolstered the region’s capacity to punish. What prompted this southern revolution in criminal punishment? Kirstine Taylor argues that the crisis in the cotton fields and the arrival of Sunbelt capitalism in the south’s rising metropolises prompted lawmakers to build expansive, modern criminal punishment systems in response to Brown v. Board of Education and the Black freedom movements of the 1960s and ‘70s. Taking us inside industry-hunting expeditions, school desegregation battles, the sit-in movement, prisoners’ labor unions, and policy commissions, Taylor tells the story of how a modernizing south became the most incarcerated region in the globe’s most incarcerated nation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The Sunbelt Carceral State

CHAPTER 2. The Birth of Law-and-Order Politics

CHAPTER 3. Black Freedom Struggles, White Violence, and New Criminal Codes

CHAPTER 4. The Development of Law Enforcement Power

CHAPTER 5. Captive Labor, Prisoners' Rights, and the Postwar Prison Boom

CHAPTER 6. Conclusion: Contesting the Carceral Present

Acknowledgments

Appendix

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780226838410

0226838412

OCLC:

1499934779