UID:
edocfu_9961293838602883
Format:
1 online resource (214 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-520-39426-7
Content:
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Seeking to shed light on how we might end mass incarceration, The Price of Freedom compares the histories and goals of the American and German justice systems. Drawing on repeated in-depth interviews with incarcerated young men in the United States and Germany, Michaela Soyer argues that the apparent relative lenience of the German criminal justice system is actually founded on the violent enforcement of cultural homogeneity at the hands of the German welfare state. Demonstrating how both societies have constructed a racialized underclass of outsiders over time, this book emphasizes that criminal justice reformers in the United States need to move beyond European models in order to build a truly just, diverse society.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: A New Phase for Criminal Justice Reform --
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1. Homogeneity, Punishment, and the Welfare State --
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2. The Uncertainty of Belonging: Narratives of Difference and Exclusion in Germany and the United States --
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3. "Here I get three meals a day": Segregation and the Relative Experience of Poverty --
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4. Retribution and Domination: Living through Punishment in Germany and the United States --
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5. "I wanna be somebody": Education and Upward Mobility in Germany and the United States --
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Final Thoughts: What Price Are We Willing to Pay for a More Equal Society? --
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Appendix I: Being "a Stranger" as Methodological Practice --
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Appendix II: American and German Interview Guides --
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Notes --
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Works Cited --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520394254
Language:
English
