The Price of Freedom: Criminalization and the Management of Outsiders in Germany and the United States...

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Michaela Soyer

The Price of Freedom

Criminalization and the Management of Outsiders in Germany and the United States

Michaela Soyer

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University of California Press
22 March 2024

Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Sociology; Crime & criminology; Criminal law & procedure; Criminal justice law

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Seeking to shed light on how we might end mass incarceration, The Price of Freedom compares the histories and goals of the American and German justice systems. Drawing on repeated in-depth interviews with incarcerated young men in the United States and Germany, Michaela Soyer argues that the apparent relative lenience of the German criminal justice system is actually founded on the violent enforcement of cultural homogeneity at the hands of the German welfare state. Demonstrating how both societies have constructed a racialized underclass of outsiders over time, this book emphasizes that criminal justice reformers in the United States need to move beyond European models in order to build a truly just, diverse society.

By: Michaela Soyer
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780520394254
ISBN 10: 0520394259
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 22 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michaela Soyer is Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College. She is author of A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America and Lost Childhoods: Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in the Post-Welfare Era.

Reviews for The Price of Freedom: Criminalization and the Management of Outsiders in Germany and the United States

""A formidable piece of comparative and qualitative analysis, converging at complex instances of segregation framed by institutional intervention, despite the great differences across contexts."" * Crime Prevention and Community Safety *