Kay Whitlock is a writer/activist focusing on structural violence and inequality. She is coauthor of Queer(In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States and Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics.  Nancy A. Heitzeg is Professor of Sociology at St. Catherine University whose work centers on race, class, gender, and social control with particular attention to the prison-industrial complex. She is author of The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double-Standards.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: World Making and "Criminal Justice Reform"1. Correctional Control and the Challenge of Reform2. Follow the Money3. Criminalization, Policing, and Profiling4. The Slippery Slope of Pretrial Reform5. Courts, Sentencing, and "Diversion"6. Imprisonment and Release7. ThresholdNotesIndex

"While scholars will find much in Carceral Con enlightening, the book is no standard academic text. Rather, it is a movement-building tool intended to assist readers in ‘critically interrogat[ing] new [reform] proposals as they arise’ and in choosing the ‘radically different way forward’ of abolition."

Kay Whitlock is a writer/activist focusing on structural violence and inequality. She is coauthor of Queer(In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States and Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics.  Nancy A. Heitzeg is Professor of Sociology at St. Catherine University whose work centers on race, class, gender, and social control with particular attention to the prison-industrial complex. She is author of The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double-Standards.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: World Making and "Criminal Justice Reform"1. Correctional Control and the Challenge of Reform2. Follow the Money3. Criminalization, Policing, and Profiling4. The Slippery Slope of Pretrial Reform5. Courts, Sentencing, and "Diversion"6. Imprisonment and Release7. ThresholdNotesIndex

"While scholars will find much in Carceral Con enlightening, the book is no standard academic text. Rather, it is a movement-building tool intended to assist readers in ‘critically interrogat[ing] new [reform] proposals as they arise’ and in choosing the ‘radically different way forward’ of abolition."

Kay Whitlock is a writer/activist focusing on structural violence and inequality. She is coauthor of Queer(In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States and Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics.  Nancy A. Heitzeg is Professor of Sociology at St. Catherine University whose work centers on race, class, gender, and social control with particular attention to the prison-industrial complex. She is author of The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double-Standards.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: World Making and "Criminal Justice Reform"1. Correctional Control and the Challenge of Reform2. Follow the Money3. Criminalization, Policing, and Profiling4. The Slippery Slope of Pretrial Reform5. Courts, Sentencing, and "Diversion"6. Imprisonment and Release7. ThresholdNotesIndex

"While scholars will find much in Carceral Con enlightening, the book is no standard academic text. Rather, it is a movement-building tool intended to assist readers in ‘critically interrogat[ing] new [reform] proposals as they arise’ and in choosing the ‘radically different way forward’ of abolition."