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Zusatztext “In the best tradition of investigative journalism! paced like a fine novel! it carries the authority of meticulous academic research.”— Independent “Exhaustively documented ... deserves a full hearing from anyone serious about ending the often horrific realities of the criminal justice system.”— Washington Post Book World “Essential reading for those in law enforcement and politics who are attracted by the rhetoric of zero tolerance.”— Times Literary Supplement “Terrifying! informative and gripping.”— New York Press Informationen zum Autor Christian Parenti is associate professor of economics at John Jay College, City University of New York (CUNY) and the author of Lockdown America, The Soft Cage, and Tropic of Chaos , among others. He has written for Fortune, Mother Jones, Conde Nast Traveler, Playboy, the New York Times, and the London Review of Books , among others. Klappentext Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America notonly documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, afortified border, and the federalization of the war on crime, it also explains thepolitical and economic history behind the massive crackdown. This fully updatedand expanded edition includes an afterword on the War on Terror, a meditationon surveillance and the specter of terrorism as they help reanimate the criminaljustice attack. Written in vivid prose, Lockdown America will propel readerstoward a deeper understanding of the links between crime and politics in a periodof gathering economic crisis. Zusammenfassung Updated edition of the classic examination of the link between crime and politics
