The prison of democracy : race, Leavenworth, and the culture of law /

The prison of democracy : race, Leavenworth, and the culture of law /

"The Prison of Democracy uses a prison designed as a replica of the US capitol building as a prism for understanding the relationship between prisons and democracy. As an historical and archival study of the federal prison system, this book examines the history of the racial carceral state and...

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Main Author: Benson, Sara M., 1981- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Subjects:
United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas > History.
United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Prisons > United States > History.
History.
Crime & criminology.
Political science & theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
Prisons.
United States.
Electronic books.
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