Dan Berger, Toussaint Losier

Rethinking the American Prison Movement

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of an important and transformational ongoing struggle for social change, highlighting key individuals and events, influential networks, strong alliances and coalitions, difficult challenges and obstacles, major successes and failures, and the movement's lasting effects on the country.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781138786851
• ISBN-10: 1138786853
• Artikelnr.: 49788909

Autorenporträt

Dan Berger, Toussaint Losier

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Roots: Challenging Prison Slavery and Political Repression,
1865-1940
Chapter 2: Rights: Fighting Prison Jim Crow, 1940-1968
Chapter 3: Revolution: The Prison Rebellion Years, 1968-1972
Chapter 4: Radicalism: Unions, Feminism, and the Crisis of Prison
Managerialism, 1973-1980
Chapter 5: Retrenchment: Mass Incarceration and the Remaking of the Prison
Movement, 1980-1998
Conclusion