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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to…
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The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those…
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Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance…
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Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively…
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The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as…
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The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington,…
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Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit,…
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If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the…
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A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in…
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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in…
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No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage…
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than…
— John Conyers
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Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.
— Hugh Jackman
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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.
— Theda Skocpol
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[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We…
— Kate Millett
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Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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Guilt? It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism -- and it's…
— Ted Bundy
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Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either…
— Francis Galton
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Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small,…
— Abraham Kaplan
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These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
— Edward Snowden
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What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control,…
— Parker J. Palmer
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Social control is best managed through fear.
— Michael Crichton
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