The Price of Freedom
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The Price of Freedom

Criminalization and the Management of Outsiders in Germany and the United States

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The Price of Freedom

Criminalization and the Management of Outsiders in Germany and the United States

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Seeking to shed light on how we might end mass incarceration, The Price of Freedom compares the histories and goals of the American and German justice systems. Drawing on repeated in-depth interviews with incarcerated young men in the United States and Germany, Michaela Soyer argues that the apparent relative lenience of the German criminal justice system is actually founded on the violent enforcement of cultural homogeneity at the hands of the German welfare state. Demonstrating how both societies have constructed a racialized underclass of outsiders over time, this book emphasizes that criminal justice reformers in the United States need to move beyond European models in order to build a truly just, diverse society.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780520394261
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: A New Phase for Criminal Justice Reform
  8. 1. Homogeneity, Punishment, and the Welfare State
  9. 2. The Uncertainty of Belonging: Narratives of Difference and Exclusion in Germany and the United States
  10. 3. “Here I get three meals a day”: Segregation and the Relative Experience of Poverty
  11. 4. Retribution and Domination: Living through Punishment in Germany and the United States
  12. 5. “I wanna be somebody”: Education and Upward Mobility in Germany and the United States
  13. Final Thoughts: What Price Are We Willing to Pay for a More Equal Society?
  14. Appendix I: Being “a Stranger” as Methodological Practice
  15. Appendix II: American and German Interview Guides
  16. Notes
  17. Works Cited