Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt and Carcerality

Author/Contributor(s):	Livingston, Julie
Publisher:	OR Books
Date:	11/29/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Cars and Jails investigates this paradox, showing how auto debt, traffic fines, over-policing, and automated surveillance systems work in tandem to entrap and criminalize poor people. The authors describe how racialization and poverty take their toll on populations with no alternative, in a country poorly served by public transport, to taking out loans for cars and exposing themselves to predatory and often racist policing. Looking skeptically at the frothy promises of the "mobility revolution," Livingston and Ross close with thought-provoking ideas for a radical overhaul of transportation" --