num_pages: 320
description: Lockdown America documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the war on drugs. Its accessible and vivid prose makes clear the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis.
language: English
title: Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
titlecomplete: Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
genres: Sociology, Crime, History, Law, Social Justice, Police, Academic, Race, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 391
publisher: Verso