O retrocesso da liberdade: contabilizando o custo da tradição prisional americana
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https://doi.org/10.5007/%25xAbstract
The huge increase in the prison population on the US in the last years has been heavily racialized: altogether, more than 18 per cent of all black men were under some form of correctional supervision in 1997. Almost a third (32 percent) of black men between the ages of 20 and 29 are currently under some type of correctional control. The article argues that this surge in prison numbers has not been the result of a sudden crime boom but of deliberate changes in US criminal justice and sentencing practice. One cause of incarceration boom is base political opportunism and a willingness to exploit and exacerbate punitive, racist responses to social fears. It has served, as well, as a latter-day Keynesian infrastructure investment programme, creating jobs and boosting local services.
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