Are prisons obsolete? /
Reagan-era politicians with "tough on crime" stances argued that imprisonment and longer sentences would keep communities free of crime. However, history has shown that the practice of mass incarceration during that period has had little or no effect on official crime rates. As we make our...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Seven Stories Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | Open Media book
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| Summary: | Reagan-era politicians with "tough on crime" stances argued that imprisonment and longer sentences would keep communities free of crime. However, history has shown that the practice of mass incarceration during that period has had little or no effect on official crime rates. As we make our way into the twenty-first century-two hundred years after the invention of the penitentiary-the question of prison abolition has acquired an unprecedented urgency. Backed by growing numbers of prisons and prisoners, the author analyzes these institutions in the U.S., arguing that the very future of democracy depends on our ability to develop radical theories and practices that make it possible to plan and fight for a world beyond the prison industrial complex. |
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| Physical Description: | 127 pages ; 18 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-127). |
| ISBN: | 1583225811 9781583225813 |