| Are Prisons Obsolete? Contributor(s): Davis, Angela Y. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1583225811 ISBN-13: 9781583225813 Publisher: Seven Stories Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2003 Annotation: World-renowned activist Angela Davis discusses how mass incarceration has had little or no effect on crime, how disproportionate numbers of the poor and minorities end up in prison, and the obscene profits the system generates. Click for more in this series: Open Media |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Law Enforcement - Social Science | Penology - Political Science | Human Rights |
| Dewey: 365.973 |
| Series: Open Media |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.9" W x 6.9" L (0.25 lbs) 128 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
| Review Citations: Black Issues Book Review 03/01/2005 pg. 53 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly, the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for decarceration, and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole. |
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