Caught
：The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
Publication subTitle ：The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
Author： Gottschalk Marie;Gottschalk Marie
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9781400880812
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691170831
Subject： C91 Sociology;D0 Political Theory;D916 司法制度;D917 犯罪学
Keyword： 政治理论,社会学,犯罪学,司法制度
Language： ENG
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Description
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 solutions centered on reentry, justice reinvestment, and reducing recidivism.
With a new preface evaluating the effectiveness of recent proposals to reform mass incarceration, Caught offers a bracing appraisal of the politics of penal reform.
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