书目名称 | States of Confinement | 副标题 | Policing, Detention, | 编辑 | Joy James | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and immigration detention centers are people of color. Statistics like these, and the often unsafe conditions under which people are imprisoned, make an analysis of incarceration urgent and timely. Using a broad multicultural approach, States of Confinement uncovers the political, social, and economic biases in our policing and punishment systems. The distinguished authors of this collection - such as Angela Y. Davis, Manning Marable, Gary Marx, Robert Meeropol (the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg), Julie Su (an attorney for immigrants‘ rights), and Judi Bari (a founder of Earthfirst!) - use their diverse experiences and expertise to discuss troubling abuses of police powers in our society. The issues they expose include racial profiling and sentencing disparities that target African Americans and Latinos, the sexual exploitation of women in prison and police custody, racist and homophobic violence, the policing of Asian Americans and Arabs, the adverse conditions of HI | 出版日期 | Book 20001st edition | 关键词 | AIDS; capital; care; children; democracy; gender; immigration; Marx; migration; police; society; statistics; Tra | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-10929-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-0-312-29450-2 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-10929-3 | copyright | Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2000 |
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