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Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis

Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis

by Christian Parenti (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

    $5.81
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 22 Sep 2000
ISBN 10: 1859843034
ISBN 13: 9781859843031

Media Reviews
The book is in the best tradition of investigative journalism, paced like a fine novel, it carries the authority of meticulous academic research. -- The Independent [Parenti's] exhaustively documented text deserves a full hearing from anyone serious about ending the often horrific realities of the criminal justice system. -- Washington Post Book World Essential reading for those in law enforcement and politics. -- Times Literary Supplement A fast read, angry and compelling. -- Philadelphia City Paper This dark, unflinching look at what our nation has become ... cannot fail to generate serious thought about issues we prefer to lock away in darkness. .-- Christian Science Monitor
Author Bio
Christian Parenti teaches at the New College of California in San Francisco. He has worked as a radio journalist in Central America, New York and California, and his writing has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, In These Times and The Christian Science Monitor.