Article
Cinque tesi sull'incarcerazione di massa negli Stati Uniti
Studi sulla questione criminale
(2015)
Abstract
The article provides a critical overview of public discourses and political strategies that have consolidated in recent years around the carceral crisis in the United States. Written in the form of "five theses" on mass incarceration, the essay charts some emerging trajectories of current penal reform discourses, outlining their promises and pitfalls. Against dominant technocratic approaches to the penal question, the article emphasizes the importance of the politicoeconomic dimension of mass imprisonment, and outlines the structural connections between the penal state and broader issues of social inequality and racial domination in the United States. In the concluding section, the author proposes some penal reforms that could become part of a broader "radicalreformist" agenda for our times.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2015
DOI
10.7383/84446
Citation Information
Alessandro De Giorgi. "Cinque tesi sull'incarcerazione di massa negli Stati Uniti" Studi sulla questione criminale Vol. 10 Iss. 2 (2015) p. 151 - 181 ISSN: 1828-4973 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alessandro_degiorgi/67/