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Introduction; Part I: 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; Part II: 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; Part III: A New Reconstruction; Smart on Crime. |
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Rebelling against the War on Low-Income, of Color, and Immigrant CommunitiesOf 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. |
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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 toward declaring victory a. |
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Crime -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Crime -- Government policy -- United States.
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Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale -- États-Unis.
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Justice pénale -- Administration -- États-Unis.
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Crime -- Government policy
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Crime -- Political aspects
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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LAW / Criminal Law / General
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Crime. |
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dangerous. |
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inaccurate. |
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Haney-López, Ian.
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Simon, Jonathan.
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Print version: Frampton, Mary Louise. After the War on Crime : Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction. New York : NYU Press, ©2008 9780814727607 |
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9780814728505 |
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0814728502 |
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DEBBG BV044162747 |
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DEBSZ 397247273 |
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DEBSZ 44928610X |
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