After the War on Crime Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction

Name: After the War on Crime Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction
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ISBN: 9780814727614

ISBN-10: 0814727611

ISBN-13: 9780814727614

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mary Louise Frampton, Ian Haney Lopez, Jonathan Simon

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Since the 1970s, Americans have witnessed a Pyrrhic war on crime, with sobering numbers at once chilling and cautionary. Our imprisoned population has increased five-fold, with a commensurate spike in fiscal costs that many now see as unsupportable into the future. As American society confronts a multitude of new challenges ranging from terrorism to the disappearance of middle-class jobs to global warming, the war on crime may be up for reconsideration for the first time in a generation or more. Relatively low crime rates indicate that the public mood may be swinging towards declaring victory and moving on. However, to declare that the war is over is dangerous and inaccurate, and After the…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Mary Louise Frampton is Director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.

An Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Ian F. Haney Lopez was a Rockefeller Fellow in Law and Humanities at Stanford University in 1994-1995. In 1995-1996, he is visiting professor at Boalt Hall, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.



Introduction



Crime, War, and Governance



The Place of the Prison in the New Government of Poverty




America Doesn't Stop at the Rio Grande: Democracy and the War on Crime




From the New Deal to the Crime Deal




The Great Penal Experiment: Lessons for Social Justice




A War-Torn Country: Race, Community, and Politics



The Code of the Streets




The Contemporary Penal Subject(s)




The Punitive City Revisited: The Transformation of Urban Social Control




Frightening Citizens and a Pedagogy of Violence




A New Reconstruction



Smart on Crime




Rebelling against the War on Low-Income, of Color, and Immigrant Communities




Of Taints and Time: The Racial Origins and Effects of Florida's Felony Disenfranchisement Law




The Politics of the War against the Young




Transformative Justice and the Dismantling of Slavery's Legacy in Post-Modern America



Afterword: Strategies of Resistance



Contributors


Index