Full name: Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis

Author: Christian Parenti Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, History, Non Fiction, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781844672493 1844672492

Lockdown America documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the war on drugs. Its accessible and vivid prose makes clear the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis. Similar books: A Cruel and Shocking Act by Philip Shenon Texas Tough by Robert Perkinson The Teapot Dome Scandal by Laton McCartney Amexica by Ed Vulliamy The Candy Machine by Tom Feiling Collusion by Luke Harding El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Parkland by Dave Cullen Gangster Warlords by Ioan Grillo The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman They Would Never Hurt a Fly by Slavenka Drakulic Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane Not in Your Lifetime by Anthony Summers ZeroZeroZero by Roberto Saviano Dead Wrong by Richard Belzer Down by the River by Charles Bowden Lethal Passage by Erik Larson The House on Garibaldi Street by Isser Harel The Victorian Underworld by Kellow Chesney