Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Figures xi
4. List of Abbreviations xiii
5. Chapter One. Introduction. The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics 1
6. Part I. The Political Economy of Penal Reform
7. Chapter Two. Show Me the Money. The Great Recession and the Great Confinement 25
8. Chapter Three. Squaring the Political Circle The New Political Economy of the Carceral State 48
9. Chapter Four. What Second Chance? Reentry and Penal Reform 79
10. Chapter Five. Caught Again Justice Reinvestment and Recidivism 98
11. Part II. The Politics of Race and Penal Reform
12. Chapter Six. Is Mass Incarceration the “New Jim Crow”? Racial Disparities and the Carceral State 119
13. Chapter Seven. What’s Race Got to Do with It? Bolstering and Challenging the Carceral State 139
14. Part III. The Metastasizing Carceral State
15. Chapter Eight. Split Verdict. The Non, Non, Nons and the “Worst of the Worst” 165
16. Chapter Nine. The New Untouchables. The War on Sex Offenders 196
17. Chapter Ten. Catch and Keep. The Criminalization of Immigrants 215
18. Chapter Eleven. The Prison beyond the Prison. The Carceral State and Growing Political and Economic Inequalities in the United States 241
19. Chapter Twelve. Bring It On. The Future of Penal Reform, the Carceral State, and American Politics 258
20. Acknowledgments 283
21. Notes 285
22. Select Bibliography 411
23. Index 439