Building the Prison State ：Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration ( Chicago Series in Law and Society )

Publication subTitle ：Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Publication series ：Chicago Series in Law and Society

Author： Heather Schoenfeld  

Publisher： University of Chicago Press‎

Publication year： 2018

E-ISBN: 9780226521152

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780226520964

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780226521015

Subject： D9 Law

Keyword： 法律

Language： ENG

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The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world—about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people—while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disparities in incarceration, the prison system also reinforces race and class divisions. How and why did we become the world’s leading jailer? And what can we, as a society, do about it?

Reframing the story of mass incarceration, Heather Schoenfeld illustrates how the unfinished task of full equality for African Americans led to a series of policy choices that expanded the government’s power to punish, even as they were designed to protect individuals from arbitrary state violence. Examining civil rights protests, prison condition lawsuits, sentencing reforms, the War on Drugs, and the rise of conservative Tea Party politics, Schoenfeld explains why politicians veered from skepticism of prisons to an embrace of incarceration as the appropriate response to crime. To reduce the number of people behind bars, Schoenfeld argues that we must transform the political incentives for imprisonment and develop a new ideological basis for punishment.

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Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Chapter 1. A New Perspective on the Carceral State

Chapter 2. Penal Modernization in the Civil Rights Era, 1954–1970

Chapter 3. Prison Overcrowding and the Legal Challenge to Florida’s Prison System, 1970–1980

Chapter 4. The Unintended Consequences of Prison Litigation, 1980–1991

Chapter 5. The Politics of Early Release, 1991–1995

Chapter 6. Republicans, Prosecutors, and the Carceral Ethos, 1995–2008

Chapter 7. Recession-Era Colorblind Politics and the Challenge of Decarceration, 2008–2016

Chapter 8. Toward a New Ethos

Acknowledgments

Appendix

Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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