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Freeing the Carceral Imagination: Prisons, Criminalization, and the Ruse of Righteous Violence

Shari Stone-Mediatore

"Carceral logic explains Americans' stubborn attachment to prisons, and we can only escape its racist and colonialist myths with different kinds of narrative practices"-- Provided by publisher.

GenresPrison-industrial complexUnited StatesAlternatives to imprisonmentImprisonmentMoral and ethical aspects

208 pages, 4 editions

English edition · First published 2026 by Bloomsbury Academic · ISBN 9781666958270

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Editions

4 editions

English

  • Freeing the Carceral Imagination: Prisons, Criminalization, and the Ruse of Righteous Violence · Bloomsbury Academic · 2026 · ISBN 9781666958270 This page
  • Freeing the Carceral Imagination: Prisons, Criminalization, and the Ruse of Righteous Violence · Bloomsbury Academic · 2026 · ISBN 9781978771468
  • Freeing the Carceral Imagination: Prisons, Criminalization, and the Ruse of Righteous Violence · Bloomsbury Academic · 2026 · ISBN 9798216255246
  • Freeing the Carceral Imagination: Prisons, Criminalization, and the Ruse of Righteous Violence · Bloomsbury Academic · 2026 · ISBN 9781666958294

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