Lockdown America
Subtitle: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
Publisher: Verso Books; Verso
Published: 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781859847183
Subjects: Prisons; Social history; United States; Politics - Current Events; Correction Of Crime And Delinquency; Criminal Law; Political Science; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; U.S. Government; Politics/International Relations; USA; Penology; United States - General; Criminal justice, Administration of; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Imprisonment
First sentence: How bleak the world must have been for those with political and economic power during the late sixties and early seventies.