Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice - Couverture souple

Page, Joshua; Soss, Joe

 
9780226841168: Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice
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ISBN 10 : 0226841162 ISBN 13 : 9780226841168
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2025

Synopsis

A searing, historically rich account of how US policing and punishment have been retrofitted over the last four decades to extract public and private revenues from America’s poorest and most vulnerable communities.

Alongside the rise of mass incarceration, a second profound and equally disturbing development has transpired. Since the 1980s, US policing and punishment have been remade into tools for stripping resources from the nation’s most oppressed communities and turning them into public and private revenues. Legal Plunder analyzes this development’s origins, operations, consequences, and the political struggles that it has created.

Drawing on historical and contemporary evidence, including original ethnographic research, Joshua Page and Joe Soss examine the predatory dimensions of criminal legal governance to show how practices that criminalize, police, and punish have been retrofitted to siphon resources from subordinated groups, subsidize governments, and generate corporate profits. As tax burdens have declined for the affluent, this financial extraction—now a core function of the country’s sprawling criminal legal apparatus—further compounds race, class, and gender inequalities and injustices. Legal Plunder shows that we can no longer afford to overlook legal plunder or the efforts to dismantle it.

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À propos des auteurs

Joshua Page is the Beverly and Richard Fink Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officer Unions in California and coauthor of Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle over Criminal Justice.

Joe Soss is the Cowles Professor for the Study of Public Service in the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226841162
ISBN 13 
9780226841168
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
469
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0226841154 ISBN 13 :  9780226841151
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2025
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