12 Th e Politics of the War against the Young

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Crime, War, and Governance
5. 1 The Place of the Prison in the New Government of Poverty 23
6. 2 America Doesn’t Stop at the Rio Grande: Democracy and the War on Crime 37
7. 3 From the New Deal to the Crime Deal 48
8. 4 The Great Penal Experiment: Lessons for Social Justice 61
9. Part II A War-Torn Country: Race, Community, and Politics
10. 5 The Code of the Streets 73
11. 6 The Contemporary Penal Subject(s) 89
12. 7 The Punitive City Revisited: Th e Transformation of Urban Social Control 106
13. 8 Frightening Citizens and a Pedagogy of Violence 123
14. Part III A New Reconstruction
15. 9 Smart on Crime 145
16. 10 Rebelling against the War on Low-Income, of Color, and Immigrant Communities 151
17. 11 Of Taints and Time: Th e Racial Origins and Effects of Florida’s Felony Disenfranchisement Law 166
18. 12 Th e Politics of the War against the Young 187
19. 13 Transformative Justice and the Dismantling of Slavery’s Legacy in Post-Modern America 207
20. Afterword: Strategies of Resistance 223
21. Contributors 229
22. Index 231