Prison out of Place

The Prison Out of Place offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social relations—including property, work, gender and race—enacted across various spatial forms and landscapes within American life. Arguing that the prison be considered as more than just a building, bound to the ostensibly closed circuit of crime and punishment, the book investigates the production of carceral power at various sites, from buses to coalfields, and cities in decline to financial urban hubs, in order to demonstrate how the organization of carceral space is ideologically and materially grounded in the neoliberal restructurings of racial capitalism. In doing so, it challenges both the common sense idea of prisons as responses to the problem of crime, and attachments to punishment as the relevant measure of criminal justice policy.
 
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Prison Out of Place ofera o sapatura geografica a inchisorii ca un set de relatii sociale - inclusiv proprietate, munca, sex si rasa - adoptate in diferite forme spatiale si peisaje din viata americana. Argumentand ca inchisoarea ar trebui considerata mai mult decat o simpla cladire, legata de circuitul aparent inchis al criminalitatii si pedepselor, cartea investigheaza productia de energie carcerala in diferite locuri, de la autobuze la campuri de carbune si orase in declin pana la centre urbane financiare, pentru a demonstra modul in care organizarea spatiului carceral se bazeaza ideologic si material in restructurarile neoliberale ale capitalismului rasial. Procedand astfel, contesta atat ideea de bun simt a inchisorilor ca raspunsuri la problema criminalitatii, cat si atasamentele la pedeapsa ca masura relevanta a politicii de justitie penala.