Marie GottschalkThe Prison and the Gallows
The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America
Marie Gottschalk is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a PhD in political science from Yale University and an MPA from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She is the author of The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States (Cornell University Press, 2000). She is a a former associate editor of World Policy Journal and a former associate director of the World Policy Institute in New York City.
1. The prison and the gallows: the construction of the carceral state in
America; 2. Law, order, and alternative explanations; 3. Unlocking the
past: the nationalization and politicization of law and order; 4. The
carceral state and the welfare state: the comparative politics of victims;
5. Not the usual suspects: feminists, women's groups, and the anti-rape
movement; 6. The battered women's movement and the development of penal
policy; 7. From rights to revolution: prison activism and penal policy; 8.
Capital punishment, the courts, and the early origins of the carceral
state, 1920s¿60s; 9. The power to punish: the political development of
capital punishment, 1972 to today; 10. Conclusion: whither the carceral
state.
