Education and Incarceration
The United States of America is in possession of the largest prison population in the world, with 2.3 million people currently behind bars. This number is predominantly and disproportionately made up of communities of colour and poverty. Between 1987 and 2007, the U.S. prison population tripled; the direct result of various 'tough on crime' public policies. Organizers and scholars use the term prison industrial complex (PIC) to name the structure that encompasses the expanding economic and political contexts of the detention and corrections industry in the USA. The PIC is a network that sutures capital, communities and the State to a permanen…
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Weitere Autoren: Winn, Maisha T. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-97829-9
- EAN: 9781317978299
- Produktnummer: 31849452
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 152 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'036 KB
Über den Autor
Erica R. Meiners is Professor of Education and Women's Studies at Northeastern Illinois University, USA. She is the author of Right to Be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies (2007).Maisha T. Winn is Associate Professor in Language, Literacy, and Culture in the Division of Educational Studies at Emory University, USA. She is the author of Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and School-to-Prison Pipeline (2011).
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