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Author Frampton, Mary Louise

Title After the War on Crime : Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction
Published New York : NYU Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (244 pages)
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 CommunitiesOf 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
Summary Since the 1970s, 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
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Notes Print version record
Subject Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Crime -- Political aspects -- United States
Crime -- Government policy -- United States
Crime -- Government policy
Crime -- Political aspects
Criminal justice, Administration of
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Haney-López, Ian.
Simon, Jonathan
ISBN 9780814728505
0814728502