Book: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorbindness
Author: Michelle Alexander
“The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.â€â€•Â Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.â€
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Source: Goodreads