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Author Soyer, Michaela, 1980- author.

Title The price of freedom : criminalization and the management of outsiders in Germany and the United States / Michaela Soyer.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : a new phase for criminal justice reform -- Homogeneity, punishment, and the welfare state -- The uncertainty of belonging : narratives of difference and exclusion in Germany and the United States -- "Here, I get three meals a day" : segregation and the relative experience of poverty -- Retribution and domination : living through punishment in Germany and the United States -- "I wanna be somebody" : education and upward mobility in Germany and the United States -- Final thoughts : what price are we willing to pay for a more equal society? -- Appendix I : being "a Stranger" as methodological practice -- Appendix II : American and German interview guides.
Summary "Seeking to shed light on how we might end mass incarceration, The Price of Freedom compares the histories and goals of the American and German justice systems. Drawing on repeated in-depth interviews with incarcerated young men in the United States and Germany, Michaela Soyer argues that the apparent relative lenience of the German criminal justice system is actually founded on the violent enforcement of cultural homogeneity at the hands of the German welfare state. Demonstrating how both societies have constructed a racialized underclass of outsiders over time, this book emphasizes that criminal justice reformers in the United States need to move beyond European models in order to build a truly just, diverse society"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Germany -- 21st century.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- 21st century.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Germany -- 21st century -- Public opinion.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- 21st century -- Public opinion.
Young male prisoners -- Germany -- Attitudes.
Young male prisoners -- United States -- Attitudes.
Justice pénale -- Administration -- États-Unis -- 21e siècle.
Justice pénale -- Administration -- États-Unis -- 21e siècle -- Opinion publique.
Jeunes prisonniers masculins -- Allemagne -- Attitudes.
Jeunes prisonniers masculins -- États-Unis -- Attitudes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Criminal justice, Administration of
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Public opinion
Germany
United States
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Other Form: Print version: Soyer, Michaela, 1980- Price of freedom Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] 9780520394254 (DLC) 2023019304
ISBN 0520394267
9780520394261 (electronic bk.)
9780520394254 (paperback)

 
    
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