Global Lockdown Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex

Name: Global Lockdown Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex
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ISBN: 9780415950572

ISBN-10: 0415950570

ISBN-13: 9780415950572

Edition: 2005

Authors: Julia Sudbury

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The recent explosion in women's imprisonment in the US--a 2,800 percent increase from 1970 to 2001--and around the world has received little critical analysis. Women of color, immigrants, and indigenous women, in particular, have been targeted by "tough on crime" policies and the global war on drugs, making them the majority inside prison walls while still the minority outside of them. The symbiotic relationship between private prison corporations and the state criminal justice system has also led to harsher sentencing and enforcement, causing prison overcrowding and creating a demand for more prison construction. This collection of essays provides a new analysis of women's imprisonment,…

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List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/21/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.386

Julia Sudbury is Professor of ethnic studies at Mills College, and editor of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex (Routledge, 2005).



Introduction : feminist critiques, transnational landscapes, abolitionist visions




Domestic enemies and carceral circles : African women and criminalization in Italy




Challenging the criminalization of women who resist




Victims and agents of crime : the new crusade against trafficking




The prison-industrial complex in indigenous California




Through the eyes of a strong black woman survivor of domestic violence : an Australian story




Queering antiprison work : African American lesbians in the juvenile justice system




Imprisoned for Zina : geopolitics and women's narratives in Pakistan




Modern day slavery : inside the prison-industrial complex




Remaking big government : immigration and crime control in the United States




Las Mujeres Olvidadas : women in Mexican prisons




Latinas and the war on drugs in the United States, Latin America, and Europe




From neighborhood to prison : women and the war on drugs in Portugal




"Mules," "yardies," and other folk devils : mapping cross-border imprisonment in Britain




Nigerian women in prison : hostages in law




Occupied territories, resisting women : Palestinian women political prisoners




Playing global cop : U.S. militarism and the prison-industrial complex




Pierce the future for hope : mothers and prisoners in the post-Keynesian California landscape




The justice for women campaign : incarcerated domestic violence survivors in post-apartheid South Africa




Reproductive rights in Nepal : from criminalization to resistance




Sisters inside : speaking out against criminal injustice