Caught : the prison state and the lockdown of American politics / Marie Gottschalk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gottschalk, Marie, author.

Contributor:

Gottschalk, Marie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corrections.

Imprisonment.

Prisons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and communities and reworks conceptions of democracy, rights, and citizenship-posing a formidable political and social challenge. In Caught, Marie Gottschalk examines why the carceral state remains so tenacious in the United States. She analyzes the shortcomings of the two dominant penal reform strategies-one focused on addressing racial disparities, the other on seeking bipartisan, race-neutral solutions centered on reentry, justice reinvestment, and reducing recidivism.With a new preface evaluating the effectiveness of recent proposals to reform mass incarceration, Caught offers a bracing appraisal of the politics of penal reform.

Contents:

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Chapter One. Introduction

Part I. The Political Economy of Penal Reform

Chapter Two. Show Me the Money

Chapter Three. Squaring the Political Circle

Chapter Four. What Second Chance?

Chapter Five. Caught Again

Part II. The Politics of Race and Penal Reform

Chapter Six. Is Mass Incarceration the "New Jim Crow"?

Chapter Seven. What's Race Got to Do with It?

Part III. The Metastasizing Carceral State

Chapter Eight. Split Verdict

Chapter Nine. The New Untouchables

Chapter Ten. Catch and Keep

Chapter Eleven. The Prison beyond the Prison

Chapter Twelve. Bring It On

Acknowledgments

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400880812

1400880815

OCLC:

934793838