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Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis

by Christian Parenti · 1999 · 320 pages

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Lockdown Americadocuments 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.

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Subject
politicshistorysociologyeconomicssocial science
Genre
crime
Themes
social justicejournalistspolicepoliticsrace
Setting
USAprison
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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