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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Mai 2026
Genre:	Philosophie
ISBN:	9798235550773
EAN-Code:	9798235550773
Verlag:	Erica Mitchell
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 216 mm / B 140 mm / D 9 mm
Gewicht:	206 gr
Seiten:	156
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Inhalt:

NO PERMANENT STRUCTURES: Why Black Men Must Renegotiate Power and Reform Justice In NO PERMANENT STRUCTURES, Corey James Smith delivers a powerful political and social examination of how systems of punishment, sentencing, and institutional control were constructed - and why they can be reconstructed. Blending personal testimony, political science, legal analysis, historical insight, and community philosophy, this book challenges the belief that prison, violence, poverty, and generational trauma are permanent conditions for Black men in America. Through sharp analysis and emotionally grounded storytelling, Smith exposes how sentencing enhancements, habitual offender laws, prosecutorial power, economic abandonment, and failed social structures have created cycles that trap generations inside systems designed more for permanence than rehabilitation. But this book is not built on despair. It is built on renegotiation. At the center of the work is a bold argument: if laws, institutions, and systems were constructed by human hands, they can also be dismantled, redesigned, and rebuilt through organized thought, policy reform, leadership, education, and community power. From courtrooms to neighborhoods, from prison cells to political strategy, NO PERMANENT STRUCTURES explores: The architecture of mass incarceration Structural inequality and sentencing design Violence as a learned survival structure Prosecutorial influence and systemic imbalance Second-look sentencing reform Community-based conflict resolution Political consciousness and institutional accountability The psychological impact of permanence on Black identity and survival Written with urgency, intelligence, and lived perspective, this book speaks directly to lawmakers, activists, educators, incarcerated individuals, community leaders, and readers searching for deeper answers about justice, power, and transformation in America. NO PERMANENT STRUCTURES is more than a critique of the system. It is a blueprint for rebuilding it.