Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the
highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the
world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana's
unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through
extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illuminates how policy makers
enlarged Louisiana's carceral infrastructures with new prisons and
jail expansions alongside the bulking up of police and
prosecutorial power. At the same time, these infrastructures were
the products of multiscalar crises: the swings of global oil
capitalism, liberal federal court and policy interventions, the
rise of neoliberal governance and law-and-order austerity, and
racist and patriarchal moral panics surrounding "crime." However,
these crises have also created fertile space for anticarceral
social movements. From incarcerated people filing conditions of
confinement lawsuits, to Angola activists challenging life without
parole, to grassroots organizers struggling to shrink the New
Orleans jail following Hurricane Katrina, to LGBTQ youth of color
organizing against police sexual violence, grassroots movements
stretch us toward new geographies of freedom in the lineage of
abolition democracy. Understanding Louisiana's carceral crisis
extends our understanding of the interplay between the crises of
mass criminalization and racial capitalism while highlighting the
conditions of possibility for dismantling carceral power in all its
forms.
General
| Imprint: |
The University of North Carolina Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Justice, Power and Politics |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
384 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4696-7511-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-4696-7511-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781469675114 |
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