Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex

Julia Sudbury

• Title
  Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex
• Date 2005
• ISBN 9780415950572
• Publisher New York: Routledge
• Description xxviii, 323 pages; 9 in
• Language English
• Collections Workshops
• Summary

   Global Lockdown is the first book to apply a transnational feminist framework to the study of criminalization and imprisonment. The distinguished contributors to this collection offer a variety of perspectives, from former prisoners to advocates to scholars from around the world. The book is a must-read for anyone concerned by mass incarceration and the growth of the prison-industrial complex within and beyond U.S. borders, as well as those interested in globalization and resistance.

  Edition note: First edition

• Tags , Feminism and Feminist theory,