Lockdown America : police and prisons in the age of crisis /
Police and prisons in the age of crisis
Christian Parenti.
- xiii, 290 pages ; 25 cm
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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Prisons--United States Imprisonment--United States Criminal justice, Administration of--United States Police--United States Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States