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Episode 215 - Carceral Con with Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg

Dec 5, 2021

01:03:32

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What Is the Purpose of the Criminal Justice System?

03:21

The Con Game in the United States

05:03

Civil Asset Forfeiture

03:05

Introduction

3min

What Is the Purpose of the Criminal Justice System?

3min

Is Wage Theft a Crime?

5min

Civil Asset Forfeiture

3min

The Problems With Partisan Criminal Justice Reform

5min

Neoliberalism and the Public Relations Spin on It, Isn't It?

3min

The Con Game in the United States

5min

Is the System Not Inherently Problematic, Right?

1min

Reform Agendas Promote Austerity Politics

6min

10.

Philanthropy and Charity - Isn't That the Answer?

3min

11.

Prison Policy Initiative

5min

12.

Arnold Ventures Risk Assessment

6min

13.

Do You Really Need to Buy the Arnold?

2min

14.

Abolitionists, You Know?

5min

15.

We're Seeing a Greater Awareness of the Inequalities

3min

16.

I'm Not Ready Right Now to Take to the Barricades, Right?

6min

Today we've got the authors of Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform on to discuss their book. We discuss some of the downsides of how criminal justice reform has been portrayed in popular media, in particular the downsides of the austerian logic that doing so will save the government money. Enjoy!