2. Breaking Bad in America: State Violence and the Changing Carceral State

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Epigraph vii
4. Contents ix
5. List of Abbreviations xi
6. Preface xv
7. I. Introduction
8. 1. Social Murder: Wealth, Power, and Violence in America 1
9. II. State Violence at Home and Abroad
10. 2. Breaking Bad in America: State Violence and the Changing Carceral State 33
11. 3. Tougher Than the Rest: State Violence and US Police Forces 58
12. 4. Deadly and Professional: The Origins and Development of US Police Forces 91
13. 5. Enemies Here, There, and Everywhere: Forever at War at Home and Abroad 121
14. III. Corporate and Economic Violence
15. 6. The Banksters Hiding in Plain Sight: The Corporate Crime Waves from Carter to Clinton 163
16. 7. Greed Is Not So Good: George W. Bush and the Financial and Foreclosure Crises 193
17. 8. Hope, Change, and Wall Street: Decriminalization of Crime in the Suites under Obama 224
18. 9. “The Banks Own This Place”: Regulation and Saving Private Capital under Obama, Trump, and Biden 268
19. IV. Corporate Violence, State Violence, and Structural Violence
20. 10. Killing Me Softly: Big Pharma, the Government, and the Opioid Crisis 291
21. 11. Undertreated and Mistreated: The Opioid Crisis and a Nation in Pain 327
22. V. Conclusion
23. 12. Fraught: Where Do We Go from Here? 365
24. Acknowledgments 399
25. Appendix: On Use of Language and Data 403
26. Notes 407
27. Index 555
28. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 597