Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform
Author:   Kay Whitlock ,  Nancy A. Heitzeg
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520343467


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   21 September 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Kay Whitlock ,  Nancy A. Heitzeg
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780520343467


ISBN 10:   0520343468
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   21 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: World Making and ""Criminal Justice Reform"" 1. Correctional Control and the Challenge of Reform 2. Follow the Money 3. Criminalization, Policing, and Profiling 4. The Slippery Slope of Pretrial Reform 5. Courts, Sentencing, and ""Diversion"" 6. Imprisonment and Release 7. Threshold Notes Index"

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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 *


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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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