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Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis (2003, Trade Paperback)

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ISBN
9781583225813

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Seven Stories Press
ISBN-10
1583225811
ISBN-13
9781583225813
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2472979

Product Key Features

Book Title
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Human Rights, Public Policy / Social Policy, Penology, Criminal Law / Sentencing
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Political Science, Social Science
Author
Angela Y. Davis
Book Series
Open Media Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
3.7 Oz
Item Length
6.9 in
Item Width
5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-281923
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"In this extraordinary book, Angela Davis challenges us to confront the human rights catastrophe in our jails and prisons. As she so convincingly argues, the contemporary U.S. practice of super-incarceration is closer to new age slavery than to any recognizable system of 'criminal justice." --Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities and City of Quartz "In this brilliant, thoroughly researched book, Angela Davis swings a wrecking ball into the racist and sexist underpinnings of the American prison system. Her arguments are well wrought and restrained, leveling an unflinching critique of how and why more than 2 million Americans are presently behind bars, and the corporations who profit from their suffering." --Rep. Cynthia McKinney [D-Georgia]
Dewey Decimal
365/.973
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1 Introduction--Prison Reform or Prison Abolition? CHAPTER 2 Slavery, Civil Rights, and Abolitionist Perspectives Toward Prison CHAPTER 3 Imprisonment and Reform CHAPTER 4 How Gender Structures the Prison System CHAPTER 5 The Prison Industrial Complex CHAPTER 6 Abolitionist Alternatives Resources Notes About the Author
Synopsis
Since the 1980s prison construction and incarceration rates in the U.S. have been rising exponentially, evoking huge public concern about their proliferation, their recent privatisation and their promise of enormous profits. But these prisons house hugely disproportionate numbers of people of colour, betraying the racism embedded in the system, while studies show that increasing prison sentences has had no effect on crime. Here, esteemed civil rights activist Angela Davis lays bare the situation and argues for a radical rethinking of our rehabilitation programmes., Amid rising public concern about the proliferation and privatization of prisons, and their promise of enormous profits, world-renowned author and activist Angela Davis argues for the abolition of the prison system as the dominant way of responding to America's social ills. The very future of democracy, she argues, depends on our ability to develop radical theories and practices that make it possible to plan and fight for a world beyond the prison industrial complex., With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put 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 one 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. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole., Activist Angela Davis argues for the abolition of the prison system as the dominant way of responding to America's social ills.
LC Classification Number
HV9276.5

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