On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

by Alice Goffman

Book Overview

A RIVETING, GROUNDBREAKING ACCOUNT OF HOW THE WAR ON CRIME HAS TORN APART INNER-CITY COMMUNITIES

Forty years in, the tough on crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic proportions that disproportionately affects Black communities. It has also torn at the lives of those on the outside. As arrest quotas and high tech surveillance criminalize entire blocks, a climate of fear and suspicion pervades daily life, not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250065666
• ISBN13: 9781250065667
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"