{"product_id":"the-price-of-freedom-criminalization-and-the-management-of-outsiders-in-germany-and-the-united-states-paperback-2","title":"The Price of Freedom: Criminalization and the Management of Outsiders in Germany and the United States - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichaela Soyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Seeking to shed light on how we might end mass incarceration, \u003ci\u003e The Price of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this provocative and deeply humane new book, sociologist Michaela Soyer dissects the stark differences in punishment systems between the United States and Germany through the experiences of incarcerated young men. \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e deftly shows the relation between punishment, the welfare state, and diversity--and the difficult trade-offs ahead.--François Bonnet, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Upper Limit: How Low-Wage Work Defines Punishment and Welfare\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In both Germany and the United States, racialized young men are far more likely to be imprisoned than their white peers--yet the societal responses to this fact have been profoundly different. Drawing on sensitive interviews and nuanced comparative ethnography, Soyer shows how these young men understand their place in their respective societies, the forces that led to their incarceration, and where they might go in the future. She thus reveals the hidden goals, understandings, and contradictions that shape both systems. \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on the problem of mass incarceration while pointing to what the German and American justice systems might learn from each other.\"--Philip Kasinitz, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eGrowing Up Muslim in Europe and the United States\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This innovative book breaks through the dulling sense of familiarity that focusing on only one society so easily engenders. By comparing young men's experiences with incarceration in Germany and the United States, Soyer invites us to view both criminal justice systems with fresh eyes and reveals the distinct ways in which marginalization and incarceration interact. American and German scholars alike have much to learn from Soyer's ambitious research.\"--Jan Doering, author of \u003ci\u003eUs versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, Soyer provides a unique comparative analysis of incarceration in the United States and Germany. Her rich, in-depth qualitative analysis allows her to develop nuanced insights into processes of racial and ethnic marginalization and criminalization in the two countries and to develop explanations for what each country can learn from the other in terms of their treatment of racial and ethnic minorities. Soyer's book is an important read for social scientists and policymakers concerned with social inequality and incarceration.\"--Danielle Raudenbush, author of \u003ci\u003eHealth Care Off the Books: Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Price of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e offers a much-needed comparative study of incarceration in two very different contexts, contrasting the quintessential mass incarceration nation of the United States with the more lenient German penal context. Through comparative ethnography and interviews, Soyer documents how such different contexts both produce prisons filled with the socially marginalized, and she elegantly links the conditions that bring marginalized men into prison to culturally conditioned explanations for their pathways to crime and imprisonment. This rare comparative work allows readers to see the much-studied but extreme US context through a new lens while offering lessons on how men interpret their histories through their cultural context. This book has much to offer prison scholars as well as those more generally interested in poverty, social marginalization, and comparative social theory.\"--Sara Wakefield, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichaela Soyer\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College. She is author of \u003ci\u003eA Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Lost Childhoods: Poverty, Trauma, and Violent Crime in the Post-Welfare Era\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 214\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.19 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 28, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45830705676485,"sku":"9780520394254","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/yWAdoEhgs09780520394254_5d722881-ed5e-4141-8173-78825581d82d.webp?v=1771200782","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-price-of-freedom-criminalization-and-the-management-of-outsiders-in-germany-and-the-united-states-paperback-2","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}