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15 J.L. Soc'y 41 (2013-2014)
Unmaking the Motor City in the Age of Mass Incarceration

handle is hein.journals/jls15 and id is 49 raw text is: UNMAKING THE MOTOR CITY IN THE AGE OF MASS INCARCERATION HEATHER ANN THOMPSON' Table of Contents I. WHAT HAPPENED TO DETROIT? ..................................................... 41 II. WHAT HAPPENED TO DETROIT... THE MORE COMPLICATED STO RY ........................................................................................... 43 A. The Criminalization of Urban Space ...................................... 43 B. Why the War on Crime? ........................................................... 44 1. A Revolution in Drug Legislation ...................................... 46 2. Sentencing and Parole ...................................................... 47 3. The Criminalization of Detroit Schools ............................. 48 C. D etroit's Urban Crisis ............................................................. 49 1. M illion D ollar Blocks ........................................................ 50 2. Orphaned Children ........................................................... 51 3. Unemp loym ent .................................................................. 52 D. The Carceral State and Detroit's Economic Fallout .............. 53 1. Profits From Prisons ........................................................ 54 2. G reen F light ....................................................................... 56 III. WHY HASN'T DETROIT CHANGED THIS? ....................................... 58 A. D isenfranchisem ent ................................................................. 59 B. Distorting Democracy Via the Census .................................... 60 IV . C ONCLUSION ................................................................................. 61 I. WHAT HAPPENED TO DETROIT? According to legend and lore, Detroit used to be a great place to live. It was a prosperous melting pot and the best of all that America had to offer. That is until the conflict-filled 1960s when young people, specifically young militant activists, became too impatient with the pace of civil rights progress (which, apparently, was going along quite smoothly) and tore up their own city in the Detroit Riot of 1967. This was the story told by journalists such as William Shannon, who titled his 1. Heather Ann Thompson is a historian of cities as well as crime and punishment who writes regularly for scholarly as well as popular publications. She also sits on a number of policy boards and is the author of Whose Detroit: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City (Comell University Press, 2001) and the forthcoming, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy (Pantheon Books).

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