Carceral Con
The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform
$32.75
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
21 September 2021
Summary
A critical examination of how contemporary criminal justice reforms expand rather than shrink structurally violent systems of policing, surveillance, and carceral control in the United States.
Public opposition to the structural racist, gendered, and economic violence that fuels the criminal legal system is reaching a critical mass. Ignited by popular uprisings, protests, and campaigns against state violence, demands for transformational change have escalated. In resp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520343474 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520343476 |
| Author: | Kay Whitlock, Nancy A. Heitzeg |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 21 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
“While scholars will find much in Carceral Con enlightening, the book is no standard academic text. Rather, it is a movement-building tool intended to assist readers in ‘critically interrogat[ing] new [reform] proposals as they arise’ and in choosing the ‘radically different way forward’ of abolition.”
* The Nation *Kay Whitlock
Kay Whitlock is a writer/activist focusing on structural violence and inequality. She is coauthor of Queer(In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States and Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics.
Nancy A. Heitzeg is Professor of Sociology at St. Catherine University whose work centers on race, class, gender, and social control with particular attention to the prison-industrial complex. She is author of The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double-Standards.
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