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100 1 $aDavis, Angela Y.$q(Angela Yvonne),$d1944-$eauthor.
245 10 $aAre prisons obsolete? /$cAngela Y. Davis.
264 1 $aNew York :$bSeven Stories Press,$c[2003]
264 4 $c©2003
300 $a1 online resource (128 pages).
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
386 $neth$aAfrican Americans$2lcdgt
386 $nnat$aAmericans$2lcdgt
490 1 $aAn open media book
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 119-127).
505 00 $gAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Prison reform or prison abolition? --$tSlavery, civil rights, and abolitionist perspectives toward prison --$tImprisonment and reform --$tHow gender structures the prison system --$tPrison industrial complex --$tAbolitionist alternatives --$gResources --$gNotes --$gAbout the author.
520 $aAmid rising public concern about the proliferation and privatization of prisons, and their promise of enormous profits, world-renowned author and activist Angela Y. Davis argues for the abolition of the prison system as the dominant way of responding to America's social ills. "In thinking about the possible obsolescence of the prison," Davis writes, "we should ask how it is that so many people could end up in prison without major debates regarding the efficacy of incarceration." Whereas Reagan-era politicians with "tough on crime" stances argued that imprisonment and longer sentences would keep communities free of crime, history has shown that the practice of mass incarceration during that period has had little or no effect on official crime rates: in fact, larger prison populations led not to safer communities but to even larger prison populations. As we make our way into the twenty-first century-two hundred years after the invention of the penitentiary-the question of prison abolition has acquired an unprecedented urgency. Backed by growing numbers of prisons and prisoners, Davis analyzes these institutions in the U.S., arguing that the very future of democracy depends on our ability to develop radical theories and practices that make it possible to plan and fight for a world beyond the prison industrial complex.
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650 0 $aPrisons$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCriminals$xRehabilitation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAlternatives to imprisonment$zUnited States.
650 7 $aLAW$xCriminal Law$xSentencing.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE$xHuman Rights.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE$xPublic Policy$xSocial Policy.$2bisacsh
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655 4 $aElectronic books.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aDavis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-$tAre prisons obsolete?$w(OCoLC)1085905527
830 0 $aOpen Media book.
856 40 $uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio15598654$zAll EBSCO eBooks
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