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HSTY 208 FINAL

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"Beginning in the late 60s, U.S. capitalism hit a dual social and economic crisis, and it was in response to this crisis that the criminal justice build up of today began"
Christian Parenti
After a surge of expansion in the late 60's, the growth of criminal justice plateaued in the late 70's, only to resume in earnest during the early and mit 80's with Reagan's war on drugs."
Christian Parenti
Initially, this buildup was in response to racial upheaval and political rebellion. The second part was more a response to the vicious economic restructuring of the Reagan era.
Christian Parenti
To restore sagging business profits of the economic crisis that appeared in the mid to late 60's, the welfare of working people had to be sacrificed.
The second phase of the criminal justice crackdown has become a way to manage rising inequality and surplus populations
Christian Parenti
The evolution of the prison has had little to do with crime and a great deal to do with America's troubled history of racial conflict and social stratification.
Robert Perkinson
"The criminal justice patterns set during slavery
and segregation have not faded away"
Robert Perkinson
The war on crime would eventually produce
mass incarceration in America
Elizabeth Hinton
The federal policies in this book escalated both violence and imprisonment, but failed to prevent crime and improved public safety.
Elizabeth Hinton
The long mobilization of the war on crime was not a return to an old racial caste system in a new guise - a "new Jim Crow". Rather, the effort to control and contain troublesome groups with patrol, surveillance, and penal strategies produced new and historically distinct phenomenon in the post civil rights era, the criminalization of urban social programs
Elizabeth Hinton
Slavery and mass imprisonment are genealogically linked and that one cannot understand the ladder without returning to the former as historic starting point and functional analogue
Löic Wacquant
1. Slavery
2. Jim Crow
3. The Ghetto
4. Prison
Löic Wacquant
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