
Lockdown America
Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
Parenti, Christian
Publisher: Verso
Year Published: 2008 First Published: 1999
Pages: 306pp Price: $24 ISBN: 978 1 84467 249 3
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX11995
Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the war on crime, it also explains the political and economic history behind the massive crackdown.
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