TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parenti,Christian
TI  - Lockdown America: police and prisons in the age of crisis 
SN  - 1859847188
AV  - HV9471 .P33 1999
U1  - 365.973 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Prisons
KW  - United States
KW  - Imprisonment
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Police
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration
N1  - 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
ER  -