# Lockdown America

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- Book: [Lockdown America](https://www.bookquiver.com/christian-parenti/lockdown-america) ([Lockdown America.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/christian-parenti/lockdown-america.md))
- Authors: [Christian Parenti](https://www.bookquiver.com/christian-parenti)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-18-4467-249-3
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2008-08-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America notonly documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing,prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the...