aA lively, smart, combative collection, brimful of ideas and
insights, this book takes on athe war on crimea and shows how
America might move beyond it.a
--David Garland, author of "The Culture of Control"
aThis brave book challenges us, urgently, to rethink crime and
punishment for the 21st century. It is not by accident that the US
became the worldas largest incarcerator in just thirty-five years.
After the War on Crime exposes how structural inequalities based on
race and class and written into our laws, institutions and everyday
practices have blackened our jails and prisons and reproduced
segregated communities inside and out.a
--Susan Tucker, Director, The After Prison Initiative, Open Society
Institute
Since the 1970s, Americans have witnessed a Pyrrhic war on
crime, with sobering numbers at once chilling and cautionary. Our
imprisoned population has increased five-fold, with a commensurate
spike in fiscal costs that many now see as unsupportable into the
future. As American society confronts a multitude of new challenges
ranging from terrorism to the disappearance of middle-class jobs to
global warming, the war on crime may be up for reconsideration for
the first time in a generation or more. Relatively low crime rates
indicate that the public mood may be swinging towards declaring
victory and moving on.
However, to declare that the war is over is dangerous and
inaccurate, and After the War on Crime reveals that the impact of
this war reaches far beyond statistics; simply moving on is
impossible. The war has been most devastating to those affected by
increased rates and longer terms of incarceration, but its reach
has also reshaped a sweeping range of socialinstitutions, including
law enforcement, politics, schooling, healthcare, and social
welfare. The war has also profoundly altered conceptions of race
and community.
It is time to consider the tasks reconstruction must tackle. To
do so requires first a critical assessment of how this war has
remade our society, and then creative thinking about how
government, foundations, communities, and activists should respond.
After the War on Crime accelerates this reassessment with original
essays by a diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars as well as
policy professionals and community activists. The volumeas
immediate goal is to spark a fresh conversation about the war on
crime and its consequences; its long-term aspiration is to develop
a clear understanding of how we got here and of where we should
go.
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