Legal Plunder

The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice

Joshua Page, Joe Soss (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

472 Seiten

2025
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
9780226841151 (ISBN)

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A searing, historically rich account of how US policing and punishment have been retrofitted over the last four decades to extract public and private revenues from America’s poorest and most vulnerable communities.

Alongside the rise of mass incarceration, a second profound and equally disturbing development has transpired. Since the 1980s, US policing and punishment have been remade into tools for stripping resources from the nation’s most oppressed communities and turning them into public and private revenues. Legal Plunder analyzes this development’s origins, operations, consequences, and the political struggles that it has created.

Drawing on historical and contemporary evidence, including original ethnographic research, Joshua Page and Joe Soss examine the predatory dimensions of criminal legal governance to show how practices that criminalize, police, and punish have been retrofitted to siphon resources from subordinated groups, subsidize governments, and generate corporate profits. As tax burdens have declined for the affluent, this financial extraction—now a core function of the country’s sprawling criminal legal apparatus—further compounds race, class, and gender inequalities and injustices. Legal Plunder shows that we can no longer afford to overlook legal plunder or the efforts to dismantle it.

Joshua Page is the Beverly and Richard Fink Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officer Unions in California and coauthor of Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle over Criminal Justice.Joe Soss is the inaugural Cowles Chair for the Study of Public Service at the University of Minnesota. He is coauthor of Disciplining the Poor and a member of the University of Minnesota Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Introduction: Legal Plunder
1 Predation in Theory, History, and Practice

Part One: Operations
2 Predatory Uses of Police and Courts
3 Predatory Uses of Custody and Supervision

Part Two: Development
4 Reconstructing Criminal Justice Predation
5 Justifying Criminal Justice Predation

Part Three: Making Bail
6 The Predatory Dimensions of Pretrial Release
7 Regulated Improvisation at the Front Lines
8 The Intersectional Logic of Bail Predation

Part Four: Significance and Struggle
9 What Do Predatory Criminal Legal Practices Do?
10 Political Struggle and the Fight to End Predation

Conclusion: Predation, Inquiry, and Politics

Acknowledgments
Appendix: Methodology and Ethics
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Chicago Studies in American Politics
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	794 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
ISBN-13	9780226841151 / 9780226841151
Zustand	Neuware