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1 online resource |
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Open media book |
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Open Media book.
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| Contents |
Introduction. Prison reform or prison abolition? -- Slavery, civil rights, and abolitionist perspectives toward prison -- Imprisonment and reform -- How gender structures the prison system -- The prison industrial complex -- Abolitionist alternatives |
| Summary |
"With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis makes the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly, the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare on say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2019 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (EBSCOhost eBook Collection, viewed January 20, 2022) |
| SUBJECT |
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd |
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Prisons -- United States
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Prison-industrial complex -- United States
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Prison abolition movements -- United States
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States
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Alternatives to imprisonment -- United States
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- Sentencing.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Policy.
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Alternatives to imprisonment
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation
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Prison abolition movements
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Prison-industrial complex
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Prisons
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Strafvollzug
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United States
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006281923 |
| ISBN |
9781609801045 |
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1609801040 |
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