E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten
Reihe: American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
Berger / Losier Rethinking the American Prison Movement
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-66222-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten
Reihe: American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
ISBN: 978-1-317-66222-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of the 1960s and 1970s to the rise of mass incarceration and its discontents, Rethinking the American Prison Movement is invaluable to anyone interested in the history of American prisons and the struggles for justice still echoing in the present day.
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Fachgebiete
- Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
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Introduction
Chapter 1: Roots: Challenging Prison Slavery and Political Repression, 1865–1940
Chapter 2: Rights: Fighting Prison Jim Crow, 1940–1968
Chapter 3: Revolution: The Prison Rebellion Years, 1968–1972
Chapter 4: Radicalism: Unions, Feminism, and the Crisis of Prison Managerialism, 1973–1980
Chapter 5: Retrenchment: Mass Incarceration and the Remaking of the Prison Movement, 1980–1998
Conclusion
