The Price of Freedom

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

By Michaela Soyer

Summary

The Price of Freedom by Michaela Soyer examines mass incarceration by comparing American and German justice systems. Through in-depth interviews with incarcerated young men in both countries, Soyer reveals that Germany's seemingly lenient system actually enforces cultural homogeneity through its welfare state. The book argues that both societies have created racialized underclasses, urging US reformers to seek solutions beyond European models for a truly just and diverse society.
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This book is suited for readers interested in criminal justice reform, sociology, and comparative studies of legal systems.

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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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520394254

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 November 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 2 tables

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 272g

Pages: 214

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Education & Reference Michaela Soyer Non-Fiction

About the Author

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.