Donald Braman
Autor/a de Doing Time on the Outside: Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America
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Donald Braman is Associate Professor of Law at George Washington University
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Braman breaks his argument up into 4 sections: the historical factors that surround incarceration including the creation of ghettos and racial stigmas, the affect incarceration has on familial connections, kinship ties and social exchanges and the silence and stigma those who are incarcerated and their families must face.
Braman outlines a vicious and absurd cycle created by our current policy that does not make us safer. Instead it serves as another instance of institutional oppression that renders largely non white communities unable to meaningfully participate in the society by destroying what the society defines as its most basic unit, the family.… (més)