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Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
Marie Gottschalk
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Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and communities and reworks conceptions of democracy, rights, and citizenship--posing a formidable political and social challenge. In Caught, Marie Gottschalk examines why the carceral state remains so tenacious in the United States. She analyzes the shortcomings of the two dominant penal reform strategies--one focused on addressing racial disparities, the other on seeking bipartisan, race-neutral ... Read more
The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and communities and reworks conceptions of democracy, rights, and citizenship--posing a formidable political and social challenge. In Caught, Marie Gottschalk examines why the carceral state remains so tenacious in the United States. She analyzes the shortcomings of the two dominant penal reform strategies--one focused on addressing racial disparities, the other on seeking bipartisan, race-neutral ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
707 g
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691170831
SKU
V9780691170831
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About Marie Gottschalk
Marie Gottschalk is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. A former journalist and editor, she was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration. She is the author of, among other works, The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America and The ... Read more
Reviews for Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
Winner of the 2016 Michael Harrington Book Award, New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association Carefully documented... It is hard to imagine a more comprehensive analysis of our shameful crisis.
Adam Hochschild, New York Review of Books Gottschalk provides a systematic, surprising, and scathing critique of the prison state... Caught may well be the best ... Read more
Adam Hochschild, New York Review of Books Gottschalk provides a systematic, surprising, and scathing critique of the prison state... Caught may well be the best ... Read more