The Prison Industrial Complex relies on the law and order ideology fomented by President Nixon and developed at least partially in response to the unrest generated through the Civil Rights Movement. It is (and has been) enhanced and emboldened via the US war on drugs, a slate of policies that by any account have failed to do anything except normalise the warehousing of nonviolent substance abusers in jails and prisons that serve more as criminal training centres then as redemptive spaces for citizens who might re-enter society successfully. Sadly, this mix of ideology, policy and privatisation has facilitated the US leading the world in the rate at which it incarcerates its own citizens.
PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX FOR BEGINNERS is a primer for how these issues emerged and how our awareness of the systems at work in mass incarceration might be the first step in reforming an institution responsible for some of our most egregious contemporary civil rights violations.
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The Prison Industrial Complex relies on the law and order ideology fomented by President Nixon and developed at least partially in response to the unrest generated through the Civil Rights Movement. It is (and has been) enhanced and emboldened via the US war on drugs, a slate of policies that by any account have failed to do anything except normalise the warehousing of nonviolent substance abusers in jails and prisons that serve more as criminal training centres then as redemptive spaces for citizens who might re-enter society successfully. Sadly, this mix of ideology, policy and privatisation has facilitated the US leading the world in the rate at which it incarcerates its own citizens.
PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX FOR BEGINNERS is a primer for how these issues emerged and how our awareness of the systems at work in mass incarceration might be the first step in reforming an institution responsible for some of our most egregious contemporary civil rights violations.
Imprint | For Beginners |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | For Beginners |
Release date | October 2016 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | 2016 |
Authors | James Braxton Peterson |
Illustrators | John Jennings, Stacey Robinson |
Foreword by | Michael Eric Dyson |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 176 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-939994-31-8 |
Barcode | 9781939994318 |
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LSN | 1-939994-31-4 |