The Politics of Incarceration

Topics

• Introduction/The Scope of Analysis: Incarceration as a Political Problem
• The Corporal: Torture, Training, Administration
• The Carceral: The Prison
• Regimes: Carceral State, Carceral Society
• The Prison in Settler Societies: A Comparative Analysis
• The Prison in Democratic Societies: Statistics, Crime, and Incarceration
• The Prison in Capitalist Societies: The Business of Prisons
• Prison and Race: “Racial Disparities” and the “Tough-on-Crime” Agenda
• SOGI Issues, Prisons, and Detention Centres
• The Criminalization of Immigration and Poverty
• The End of the Carceral State?