Lockdown America : police and prisons in the age of crisis / Christian Parenti.
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TextPublisher: New York : Verso, 1999Description: xiii, 290 pages ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1859847188
- 9781859847183
- Police and prisons in the age of crisis
- 365.973 21
- HV9471 .P33 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nixon's splendid little war: social crisis and containment -- From crisis to roll back -- A war for all seasons: the return of law and order -- Discipline in Playland, part I- zero tolerance: the science of kicking ass -- Discipline in Playland, part II- policing the themepark city -- Carrying the big stick: SWAT teams and paramilitary policing -- Repatriating la Migra's war: the militarized border comes home -- The rise of big house nation: from reform to revenge -- Prison as Abattoir: official terror -- Balkans in a box: rape, race war, and other forms of management -- Big bucks from the big house: the prison industrial complex and beyond.
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