Des contributions qui présentent une histoire sociale, culturelle et politique des arsenaux répressifs apparus en Afrique, depuis la capture des esclaves au XIXe siècle jusqu'aux prisons du génocide rwandais, en passant par les asiles d'aliénés coloniaux, les camps de réfugiés e…
"The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied insti…
"The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied insti…
"The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied insti…
"Featuring over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev--author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, II, III--this book describes the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's work as a prison guard a…
"Featuring over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev--author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, II, III--this book describes the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's work as a prison guard a…
"Featuring over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev--author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, II, III--this book describes the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's work as a prison guard a…
A systematic critique of imprisonment which challenges established views and myths. Examines why there still exists so much political and other misguided support for a long failing institution.
"Today, over seven million people live under the control of US jail, prison, probation, or parole systems-the vast majority of them people of color and young people. Between 2000 and 2007, Congress added 454 new offenses to the Federal criminal code. Critical Resistance has orga…
Critical Resistance is a U.S. national organization dedicated to opposing the expansion of the prison industrial complex. The papers in this collection discuss the history of the organization and the movement to abolish the reliance on imprisonment, surveillance and policing.
