Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control

摘要: One-third of America's adult population has passed through the criminal justice system and now a record. Many more have never been convicted, but are still subject to surveillance by state. Never before government maintained so vast network institutions dedicated solely control confinement its citizens. A provocative assessment contemporary carceral state, Arresting Citizenship argues that broad reach recast relation between citizen resulting in sizable-and growing-group second-class From police stops court cases incarceration, at each stage system, disempowered individuals belonging this group experience state-within-a-state reflects few country's core democratic values. The authors show how contact with police, courts, prisons decreases faith capacity American political respond citizens' concerns diminishes sense equal citizenship - even for those not found guilty any crime. They go on offer concrete proposals reforms reincorporate large citizens as active participants life.