The Annihilating Public Policies of the Prison-Industrial Complex; or, Crime, Violence, and Punishment in An Age of Neoliberalism

A review essay on books by Angela Davis, Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (New York: Seven Stories press, 2005), The New York Civil Liberties Union, Criminalizing the Classroom: The Over-Policing of new York City Schools, (New York: NYCLU, 2007), Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, Daniel Williams [Ed], Liberty's Captives: narratives of Confinement in the print Culture of the Early Republic, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006), Mumia Abu-Jamal, Lives from death Row, (New York: Perennial, 2002), Erica Meiners, Right to Be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies, (New York: Routledge, 2007), William Lyons and Julie Drew, Punishing Schools: fear and Citizenship in American Public Education, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan press, 2006), and Carol Stabile, White Victims, Black Villians: Gender, race, and Crime News in U.S. Culture, (New York: Routledge, 2006).