Lockdown America
Subtitle: police and prisons in the age of crisis
By: Christian Parenti.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Prisons -- United States; Imprisonment -- United States; Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States; Police -- United States; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: Nixon's splendid little war: social crisis and containment; title: From crisis to roll back; title: A war for all seasons: the return of law and order; title: Discipline in Playland, part I- zero tolerance: the science of kicking ass; title: Discipline in Playland, part II- policing the themepark city; title: Carrying the big stick: SWAT teams and paramilitary policing; title: Repatriating la Migra's war: the militarized border comes home; title: The rise of big house nation: from reform to revenge; title: Prison as Abattoir: official terror; title: Balkans in a box: rape, race war, and other forms of management; title: Big bucks from the big house: the prison industrial complex and beyond.