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Celling Black Bodies: Black Women In The Global Prison Industrial Complex, Julia Sudbury
Celling Black Bodies: Black Women In The Global Prison Industrial Complex, Julia Sudbury
Sociology
The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed an explosion in the population of women prisoners in Europe, North America, and Australasia, accompanied by a boom in prison construction. This article argues that this new pattern of women's incarceration has been forged by three overlapping phenomena. The first is the fundamental shift in the role of the state that has occurred as a result of neo-liberal globalization. The second and related phenomenon is the emergence and subsequent global expansion of what has been labelled a 'prison industrial complex' made up of an intricate web of relations between state penal institutions, politicians and …