Abolition: politics, practices, promises. Volume 1

Part I: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Prison. 1. The Prisoner Exchange: The Underside of Civil Rights

2 Prison: A Sign of US Democracy?

Part II: Slavery and the US Prison: Genealogical Connections. 3. From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Lease System

4. From the Convict Lease System to the Super-Max Prison

Part III: Disarticulating Crime and Punishment: Emerging Abolitionist Frameworks. 5. Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry

6. Changing Attitudes toward Crime and Punishment

7 Public Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden Punishment of Women

Part IV: Rethinking Incarceration: Identifying the Prison Industrial Complex. 8. Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex

9. Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex: California and Beyond

Part V: Incarcerated Women: The Netherlands, the United States, and Cuba. 10. Women in Prison: Researching Race in Three National Contexts / with Kum-Kum Bhavani

11. Incarcerated Women: Transformative Strategies / with Kum-Kum Bhavani

12. Fighting for Her Future: Reflections on Human Rights and Women's Prisons in the Netherlands / with Kum-Kum Bhavani.