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“An Enormous Amount of Human Waste”: Self-esteem, Capitalism, and the US Prison, 1973-1989

Transatlantica, 2021
The period between the passage of the Rockefeller drug laws in 1973 and the Reagan-era expansion of the War on Drugs in the late 1980s was characterized by the rise of penal punitiveness and the triumph of neoliberal logics; it was also during these ...
Anaïs Lefèvre
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From the Warehouse to the Deathbed: Challenging the Conditions of Mass Death in Prison [PDF]

, 2015
The purpose of this project is to analyze the crisis of mass incarceration by placing the conditions faced by elderly, terminally ill, and dying prisoners, as its main point of focus.
Chavez, Ernest K
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Successful Community Reentry After Incarceration: Exploring Intangible Aspects of Social Support During the Reintegration Process

Columbia Social Work Review, 2012
The United States prison population and rate of incarceration have climbed to the highest worldwide, and mass incarceration has become a concerning social issue.
Ursula Helene Kiczkowski
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Mass incarceration and the school-to-prison pipeline: the intergenerational transmission of criminalization

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
Although the school-to-prison pipeline and mass incarceration arose in the United States at the same time, scholars have addressed them separately. In this article, we show that both systems rose due to an overreliance on policing in society and are ...
Emma K. Tynan, Mark R. Warren
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The International Expansion of São Paulo’s “Primeiro Comando da Capital” (PCC): notes on the illicit drug trade in South America [PDF]

Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, 2019
This article examines the trajectory of the “Primeiro Comando da Capital” or PCC, a prison-based organized criminal group from Brazil, and its participation in transnational drug trafficking in South America, notably around the Paraguayan-Brazilian ...
Machado G.
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The New Jim Crow [PDF]

, 2011
The mass incarceration of poor people of color represents a new American caste system that is the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways it was once legal to discriminate against
Michelle Alexander
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Mass (Mediating) Incarceration

, 2022
What is mass incarceration? What does it have to do with mass media and popular culture? This chapter synthesizes some of the most influential lines of research on mass incarceration and ties its rise over the second half of the 20th century to racialized representations of crime, policing, and punishment.
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Restorative and Transformative Justice in a Land of Mass Incarceration

Journal of Moral Theology, 2016
The purpose of this article is to wrestle with the difficulties as well as possibilities for restorative justice in a land of mass incarceration. What can restorative justice offer in response to mass incarceration?
Amy Levad
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Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Lauren-Brooke Eisen

Iperstoria, 2019
Recensione di Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration.
Roberto Cagliero
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Incarceration American-Style [PDF]

, 2009
In the United States today, incarceration is more than just a mode of criminal punishment. It is a distinct cultural practice with its own aesthetic and technique, a practice that has emerged in recent decades as a catch-all mechanism for managing social
Dolovich, Sharon
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