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1 online resource : illustrations. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The Right to Mobility? -- Experiences : Freedom Dreams -- Shaking Down the Traffic Debtor -- Why Do So Many Owe So Much? -- Experiences : Chutes and Ladders -- Carceral Creep Meets Surveillance Capitalism. |
| Summary |
""Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year."-- Malcolm X (a former auto worker) Written in a lively, accessible fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were formerly incarcerated, Cars and Jails examines how the costs of car ownership and use are deeply enmeshed with the U.S. prison system. American consumer lore has long held the automobile to be a "freedom machine," consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet, paradoxically, the car also functions at the cross-roads of two great systems of entrapment and immobility- the American debt economy and the carceral state. Cars and Jails investigates this paradox, showing how auto debt, traffic fines, over-policing, and automated surveillance systems work in tandem to entrap and criminalize poor people. The authors describe how racialization and poverty take their toll on populations with no alternative, in a country poorly served by public transport, to taking out loans for cars and exposing themselves to predatory and often racist policing. Looking skeptically at the frothy promises of the "mobility revolution," Livingston and Ross close with thought-provoking ideas for a radical overhaul of transportation"-- Provided by the publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Poor -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Automobile ownership -- United States.
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Automobile ownership -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Debt, Imprisonment for -- United States.
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Crime and race -- United States.
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Equality -- United States.
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Automobile ownership |
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Automobile ownership -- Social aspects |
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Crime and race |
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Criminal justice, Administration of |
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Debt, Imprisonment for |
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Equality |
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Poor -- Social conditions |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
| Added Author |
Ross, Andrew, 1956- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJyxhBryQgYG9MgvQ4kv73 https://isni.org/isni/0000000108599968
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Livingston, Julie. Cars and jails. Berkeley : OR Books, 2022 9781682193495 (OCoLC)1346520721 |
| ISBN |
9781682193501 (e-book) |
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1682193500 (e-book) |
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9781682193495 (paperback) |
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