LOCKDOWN AMER PA

by PARENTI,CHRISTIAN

• ISBN13: 9781859843031
• ISBN10: 1859843034
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-09-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

Lockdown America documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the war on drugs. Its accessible and vivid prose makes clear the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Christian Parenti teaches at the New College of California in San Francisco. His writing appears in The Nation, The Progressive, In These Times, Salon, and the Christian Science Monitor

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xi
PART I: CRISIS
Nixon's Splendid Little War: Social Crisis and Containment	3	(26)
From Crisis to Rollback	29	(16)
A War for All Seasons: The Return of Law and Order	45	(24)
PART II: POLICE
Discipline in Playland, Part I --- Zero Tolerance: The Science of Kicking Ass	69	(21)
Discipline in Playland, Part II --- Policing the Themepark City	90	(21)
Carrying the Big Stick: SWAT Teams and Paramilitary Policing	111	(28)
Repatriating la Migra's War: The Militarized Border Comes Home	139	(24)
PART III: PRISON
The Rise of Big House Nation: From Reform to Revenge	163	(7)
Prison as Abattoir: Official Terror	170	(12)
Balkans in a Box: Rape, Race War, and Other Forms of Management	182	(29)
Big Bucks from the Big House: The Prison Industrial Complex and Beyond	211	(34)
Notes	245	(37)
Index	282