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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > social history of crime > courts, corrections, punishments > corrections > prison reform > critical resistance
... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > penology > corrections (penology) > corrections > prison reform > critical resistance
... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > race and crime > corrections > prison reform > critical resistance
... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > penology > prisons and correctional facilities > prison reform > critical resistance
... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > penology > prisons and correctional facilities > race, class, and gender > critical resistance

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critical resistance  

Definition(s)

  • Critical Resistance is a grassroots organization that “fights to end the prison industrial complex by challenging the belief that policing, surveillance, imprisonment and other forms of control make our communities safer” (Critical Resistance, 2002c, p. 1). [Source: Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities; Critical Resistance]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-WK1DD7GG-4

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