Prison and social death
Record details
- ISBN: 0813565596
- ISBN: 9780813565590
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Elements of social death. Crossing the abyss : the study of social death ; Natal alienation ; Humiliation -- Method and a history of social death. Dissemblance and creativity : toward a methodology for studying state violence ; Racism, prison, and the legacies of slavery ; The birth of the penitentiary -- Abolition democracy. "Doesn't everyone know someone in prison or on parole?" ; Spirit murder : reentry, disposession, and enduring stigma ; States of grace : social life against social death ; Conclusion : failure and abolition democracy. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |