A Prison by Any Other Name

by Maya Schenwar  (Author), Victoria Law  (Author), Michelle Alexander (Foreword)  SOURCE: https://www.amazon.com/Prison-Any-Other-Name-Consequences-ebook/dp/B07VPL283N#:~:text=In%20Prison%20by%20Any%20Other,status%20quo%20when%20pursuing%20change. A crucial indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” that exposes how many of these new approaches actually widen the net of punishment and surveillance “But what does it mean—really—to celebrate reforms that convert your home into your prison?”—Michelle Alexander, from the foreword Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers.

The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration

By Aya Gruber  Order from the publisher, University of California Press. >>>https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520304512/the–feminist-war-on-crime Read an excerpt:  Description:  Many feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commentators on gender crime continue to assert that criminal law is not tough enough. This punitive impulse, prominent legal scholar Aya Gruber argues, is dangerous and counterproductive. In their quest

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo

Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life By JoAnn Wypijewski >>>https://www.versobooks.com/books/3178-what-we-don-t-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-metoo Description:  What if we took sex out of the box marked “special,” the contents of which are either the worst or best thing a person can experience, and considered it within the complexity of human life in general? In this extraordinary book, and

Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State

By Paul M. Renfro Order from the publisher, Oxford University Press >>>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/stranger-danger-9780190913984?cc=us&lang=en& Description:  Beginning with Etan Patz’s disappearance in Manhattan in 1979, a spate of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children stoked anxieties about the threats of child kidnapping and exploitation. Publicized through an emerging twenty-four-hour news cycle, these cases supplied evidence of what some