Carceral Capitalism

by Jackie Wang

Book Overview

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.

What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635900026
• ISBN13: 9781635900026
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.8" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher