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Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives
Stephen Hartnett
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Description for Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives
Paperback. An intrepid and reasoned call for empowerment over incarceration Editor(s): Hartnett, Stephen John. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 colour Photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKVP1; JKVQ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 498.
Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer an ideological and practical framework for empowering prisoners instead of incarcerating them. Experts and activists who have worked within and against the prison system join forces here to call attention to the debilitating effects of a punishment-driven society and offer clear-eyed alternatives that emphasize working directly with prisoners and their communities. Edited by Stephen John Hartnett, the volume offers rhetorical and political analyses of police culture, the so-called drug war, media coverage of crime stories, and the public-school-to-prison pipeline. The collection ... Read more
Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer an ideological and practical framework for empowering prisoners instead of incarcerating them. Experts and activists who have worked within and against the prison system join forces here to call attention to the debilitating effects of a punishment-driven society and offer clear-eyed alternatives that emphasize working directly with prisoners and their communities. Edited by Stephen John Hartnett, the volume offers rhetorical and political analyses of police culture, the so-called drug war, media coverage of crime stories, and the public-school-to-prison pipeline. The collection ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077708
SKU
V9780252077708
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About Stephen Hartnett
Stephen John Hartnett is an associate professor and chair of communication at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the author of Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror and Executing Democracy, Volume One: Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1683–1807.
Reviews for Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives
Received one of the PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Awards from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 2011. "This is an important, timely, and well-informed consideration of one of the major social issues of our democracy. The essays are relevant, varied, and written from the perspectives of committed activists, offering both a sophisticated understanding of the ... Read more