After the War on Crime

Mary Louise Frampton is Director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.Ian Haney López is Professor of Law at Boalt Hall and author of White by Law (NYU Press) and Racism on Trial.Jonathan Simon is Professor of Law at Boalt Hall and author of Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear.

This thought-provoking book contains 14 essays that explore the far-reaching collateral damages and socioeconomic consequences of tough-on-crime policies. (Choice) This brave book challenges us, urgently, to rethink crime and punishment for the 21st century. It is not by accident that the U.S. became the world's largest incarcerator in just thirty-five years. After the War on Crime exposes how structural inequalities based on race and class and written into our laws, institutions and everyday practices have blackened our jails and prisons and reproduced segregated communities inside and out. - Susan Tucker,Director, The After Prison Initiative, Open Society Institute

• Introduction Part I Crime, War, and Governance 1 The Place of the Prison in the New Government of Poverty Loic Wacquant 2 America Doesn't Stop at the Rio GrandeAngelina Snodgrass Godoy 3 From the New Deal to the Crime Deal Jonathan Simon 4 The Great Penal Experiment: Lessons for Social Justice Todd R. ClearPart II A War-Torn Country: Race, Community, and Politics 5 The Code of the Streets Elijah Anderson 6 The Contemporary Penal Subject(s) Mona Lynch 7 Th e Punitive City RevisitedKatherine Beckett and Steve Herbert 8 Frightening Citizens and a Pedagogy of Violence William LyonsPart III A New Reconstruction 9 Smart on Crime Kamala D. Harris 10 Rebelling against the War on Low-Income, of Color, and Immigrant Communities Gerald P. Lopez 11 Of Taints and TimeJessie Allen 12 The Politics of the War against the Young Barry Krisberg 13 Transformative Justice and the Dismantling of Slavery's Legacy in Post-Modern America Mary Louise Frampton AfterwordVan JonesContributors Index