RT Book
T1 Prison capital: mass incarceration and struggles for abolition democracy in Louisiana
T2 Justice, power, and politics
A1 Pelot-Hobbs, Lydia
LA English
PP Chapel Hill
PB University of North Carolina Press
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1851992421
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV9475.L2
SN 9781469675107
SN 9781469675114
K1 Mass incarceration : Louisiana : History : 20th century
K1 Mass incarceration : Louisiana : History : 21st century
K1 Mass incarceration : Government policy : Louisiana
K1 Racism against Black people : Louisiana
K1 Petroleum industry and trade : Political aspects : Louisiana
K1 Capitalism : Political aspects : Louisiana
K1 Prison abolition movements : Louisiana
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / General
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
K1 Louisiana : Politics and government
K1 Louisiana : Strafvollzug : Justizvollzugsanstalt : Polizei : Sicherheit und Ordnung : Strafjustiz : Armut : Rassismus : Orkan