Denaturalized / Claire Zalc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zalc, Claire, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--France--History--20th century.

Antisemitism.

Citizenship, Loss of--France--History--20th century.

Citizenship, Loss of.

Jews--Legal status, laws, etc--France--History--20th century.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearA CounterPunch Best Book of the YearA Lone Star Policy Institute Recommended Book“A critically important exploration of the political dynamics that have made us one of the most punitive societies in human history. A must-read by one of our most thoughtful scholars of crime and punishment.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy“A cogent and provocative argument about how to achieve true institutional reform and fix our broken system.”—Emily Bazelon, author of Charged“If you care, as I do, about disrupting the perverse politics of criminal justice, there is no better place to start than Prisoners of Politics.”—James Forman, Jr., Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Locking Up Our OwnThe United States has the world’s highest rate of incarceration in the world. As awful as that truth is, its social consequences—recycling offenders through an overwhelmed criminal justice system, ever-mounting costs, and a growing class of permanently criminalized citizens—are even more devastating. With the authority of a prominent legal scholar and the practical insights gained through her work on criminal justice reform, Rachel Barkow reveals how dangerous it is to base criminal justice policy on the whims of the electorate and argues for a transformative shift toward data and expertise.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue: 53552X28

Introduction

1 In the Beginning Was the Law

2 New Men? The Actors behind the Denaturalization Policy

3 The Commission’s First Selections: Political Logic and Administrative Anti-Semitism

4 Singling Out the Unworthy at the Local Level: Denaturalizing from the Bottom Up

5 The Commission at Work

6 Investigations and Investigators

7 Denaturalized, and Then What?

8 Protests

9 Summing Up

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Feb 2021)

ISBN:

9780674987715

0674987713