States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons

by Joy James

Book Overview

The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world; 70 percent of the nearly two million incarcerated in prisons and immigration detention centers are people of color. States of Confinement uncovers the political, social, and economic biases in policing and punishment. The distinguished contributors- Angela Y. Davis, Manning Marable, Gary Marx, Robert Meeropol, Julie Su, and Judi Bari-discuss abuses of police...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312294506
• ISBN13: 9780312294502
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"