Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis - Hardcover

Parenti, Christian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844672670 ISBN 13: 9781844672677

Publisher: Verso Books, 2008

Synopsis

Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the war on crime, it also explains the political and economic history behind the massive crackdown. This updated edition includes an afterword on the War on Terror, a meditation on surveillance and the specter of terrorism as they help reanimate the criminal justice attack. Written in vivid prose, Lockdown America will propel readers toward a deeper understanding of the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis.

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About the Author

Christian Parenti is associate professor of economics at John Jay College, City University of New York (CUNY) and the author of Lockdown America, The Soft Cage, and Tropic of Chaos, among others. He has written for Fortune, Mother Jones, Conde Nast Traveler, Playboy, the New York Times, and the London Review of Books, among others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844672670
• ISBN 13: 9781844672677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 306