Lockdown America
Subtitle: police and prisons in the age of crisis
By: Christian Parenti
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781859843031
Subjects: Imprisonment; Police; Prisons
Notes: Originally published: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nixon's splendid little war: social crisis and containment; title: From crisis to rollback; 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.