Inside Knowledge
Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison
New York : New York University Press, [2024]
Format: Book
Description: ix, 313 pages ; 24 cm
"In Inside Knowledge incarcerated people step forth as the primary witnesses and documentarians of the American prison's historical and ongoing defeat of the four cardinal rationales for the legal caging of human beings: rehabilitations, deterrence, containment, and retribution"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction -- The Prison as Idea and Practice -- Defeating Retribution, Fighting Accountability, Manufacturing 'Monsters' -- Defeating Rehabilitation, Prison Resistance, and Transformation -- Containment and Incapacitation's Collateral Effects -- Defeating Deterrence: Debilitation, Abuse, and Diminished Futures -- Conclusion: Charting the Path Forward.
Subjects:
Prisons -- United States.
Prisoners -- United States.
Imprisonment -- United States.
Corrections -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Prisons -- United States.
Prisoners -- United States.
Imprisonment -- United States.
Corrections -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
ISBN:
9781479818006
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Crime Punishment Lar | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-298) and index.