No Way Out: Crime, Punishment and the Limits to Power (Transcript and Video)

No Way Out: Crime, Punishment and the Limits to Power (Transcript and Video)
Bichler, Shimshon and Nitzan, Jonathan. (2012). September. pp. 1-19. (Conference Paper / Proceedings; English).

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Abstract or Brief Description

The United States is often hailed as the world's largest 'free market'. But this 'free market' is also the world's largest penal colony. It holds over seven million adults – roughly five per cent of the labour force – in jail, in prison, on parole and on probation. Is this an anomaly, or does the 'free market' require massive state punishment? Why did the correctional population start to rise in the 1980s, together with the onset of neoliberalism? How is this increase related to the upward redistribution of income and the capitalization of power? Can soaring incarceration sustain the unprecedented power of dominant capital, or is there a reversal in the offing?

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English

Publication Type

Conference Paper / Proceedings

Keywords

capital as power crime Georg Rusche punishment systemic crisis unemployment United States

Subject

BN Law
BN Civilization & Social Systems
BN Conflict & Violence
BN Methodology
BN Distribution
BN Institutions
BN Resistance
BN Power
BN Region - North America
BN Capital & Accumulation
BN Class
BN Labour
BN Crisis

Depositing User

Jonathan Nitzan

Date Deposited

10 Jan 2013

Last Modified

09 Apr 2016 22:21

URL:

http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/id/eprint/346

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