An edition of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (1999)

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An edition of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (1999)

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Language
English
Pages
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Subjects

Administration of Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Police, Prisons, Discrimination in criminal justice administration, Police administration, Prisons, united states, Criminal justice, administration of, Police, united states

Places

United States

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Table of Contents

Nixon's splendid little war: social crisis and containment
From crisis to rollback
A war for all seasons: the return of law and order
Discipline in Playland, Part I - Zero tolerance: the science of kicking ass
Discipline in Playland, Part II - policing the themepark city
Carrying the big stick: SWAT teams and paramilitary policing
Repatriating la Migra's war: the militarized border comes home
The rise of big house nation: from reform to revenge
Prison as abattoir: official terror
Balkans in a box: rape, race war, and other forms of management
Big bucks from the big house: the prison industrial complex and beyond.

Edition Notes

Originally published: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
365.973
Library of Congress
HV9471 .P33 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 290 p. ;
Number of pages
290

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24930650M
ISBN 10
1859843034
ISBN 13
9781859843031
OCLC/WorldCat
551780820

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