In Caught, Marie Gottschalk examines why the carceral state remains so tenacious in the United States.

This book argues that punitive penal policies were forged by particular social movements and interest groups within the constraints of larger institutional structures and historical developments that distinguish the United States from other ...

She maintains that the shadow welfare state of job-based benefits shaped the manner in which labor defined its policy interests and strategies.

This book examines the development of four key movements that mediated the construction of the carceral state in important ways: the victims' movement, the women's movement, the prisoners' rights movement, and opponents of the death penalty ...