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Chargement... Prisons Make Us Safer and 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarcerationpar Victoria Law
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. absolutely required reading for anyone who's starting to think about abolition/restorative justice/transformative justice. really accessible and thought provoking, and as an added bonus there's a list of further reading at the end for when you inevitably rip through this and instantly want to go deeper. ( ) Just so excellent. Law lays out the truth about each myth, from those that are perhaps obvious to people familiar with arguments against prisons to ones that I still hear repeated frequently by abolitionists (myths about slave labor in prisons!) It's wildly accessible, and does a great job of combining short chapters with a great deal of citation and also extra reading. You could absolutely use this in a classroom with high schoolers, in college classrooms, and you should DEFINITELY read it in reading groups about PIC abolition. I've heard Law note that this book pairs very neatly with Prison By Any Other Name which she co-wrote with Maya Schenwar as she was writing this book, and I would strongly agree. Start with this, and then read that! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals. The United States incarcerates more of its residents than any other nation. Though home to 5% of the global population, the United States has nearly 25% of the world??s prisoners??a total of over 2 million people. This number continues to steadily rise. Over the past 40 years, the number of people behind bars in the United States has increased by 500%. Journalist Victoria Law explains how racism and social control were the catalysts for mass incarceration and have continued to be its driving force: from the post-Civil War laws that states passed to imprison former slaves, to the laws passed under the ??War Against Drugs? campaign that disproportionately imprison Black people. She breaks down these complicated issues into four main parts: 1. The rise and cause of mass incarceration 2. Myths about prison 3. Misconceptions about incarcerated people 4. How to end mass incarceration Through carefully conducted research and interviews with incarcerated people, Law identifies the 21 key myths that propel and maintain mass incarceration, including: ? The system is broken and we simply need some reforms to fix it ? Incarceration is necessary to keep our society safe ? Prison is an effective way to get people into drug treatment ? Private prison corporations drive mass incarceration ??Prisons Make Us Safer? is a necessary guide for all who are interested in learning about the cause and rise of mass incarceratio Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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