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Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform

ISBN-13: 9780520343467
ISBN-10: 0520343468
Edition: First Edition
Author: Nancy A. Heitzeg, Kay Whitlock
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardcover 280 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780520343467
ISBN-10: 0520343468
Edition: First Edition
Author: Nancy A. Heitzeg, Kay Whitlock
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardcover 280 pages

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Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform (ISBN-13: 9780520343467 and ISBN-10: 0520343468), written by authors Nancy A. Heitzeg, Kay Whitlock, was published by University of California Press in 2021. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Black & African Americans (United States History, Criminal Procedure, Rules & Procedures, Criminology, Social Sciences, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Black & African Americans books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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A critical examination of how contemporary criminal justice reforms expand rather than shrink structurally violent systems of policing, surveillance, and carceral control in the United States.
 
Public opposition to the structural racist, gendered, and economic violence that fuels the criminal legal system is reaching a critical mass. Ignited by popular uprisings, protests, and campaigns against state violence, demands for transformational change have escalated. In response, a now deeply entrenched so-called bipartisan industry has staked its claim to the reform terrain. Representing itself as a sensible bridge across bitterly polarized political divides and party lines, the bipartisan reform industry seeks to control the nature and scope of local, state, and federal reforms. Along the way, it creates an expanding web of neoliberal public-private partnerships, with the promotion and implementation of efforts managed by billionaires, public officials, policy factories, foundations, universities, and mega nonprofit organizations. Yet many bipartisan reforms constitute deceptive sleights of hand that not only fail to produce justice but actively reproduce structural racial and economic inequality.
 
Carceral Con pulls the veil away from the reform public relations machine, providing a riveting overview of the repressive US carceral state and critical examination of the reform terrain, quagmires, and choices that face us. The book vividly illustrates how contemporary bipartisan reform agendas leave the structural apparatus of mass incarceration intact while widening the net of carceral control and surveillance. The text also equips readers with information and insights useful for examining the likely impacts of reforms today and in the future. What can we learn from reforms of the past? What strategies hold most promise for dismantling structural inequalities, corporate control, and state violence? What approaches will reduce reliance on carceral control and also bring about community safety? Utilizing an abolitionist lens, Carceral Con makes the compelling case for liberatory approaches to envisioning and creating a just society.

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