Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of CrisisVerso, 2000 - 290 pages Lockdown America documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the war on drugs. Its accessible and vivid prose makes clear the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis. |
Table des matières
Nixons Splendid Little War Social Crisis and Containment | 3 |
From Crisis to Rollback | 29 |
A War for All Seasons The Return of Law and Order | 45 |
POLICE | 67 |
Discipline in Playland Part I Zero Tolerance The Science of Kicking Ass | 69 |
Disciple in Playland Part II Policing the Themepark City | 90 |
Carrying the Big Stick SWAT Teams and Paramilitary Policing | 111 |
Repatriating la Migras War The Militarized Border Comes Home | 139 |
PRISON | 161 |
The Rise of Big House Nation From Reform to Revenge | 163 |
Prison as Abbattoir Official Terror | 170 |
Balkans in a Box Rape Race War and Other Forms of Management | 182 |
Big Bucks from the Big House The Prison Industrial and Beyond | 211 |
NOTES | 245 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis Christian Parenti Affichage d'extraits - 1999 |
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