Nikia Smith Robert

The Business of Incarceration

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“The Business of Incarceration is a comprehensive study of cutting-edge research addressing the pervasiveness of mass incarceration that intersects with multiple facets of life. An important argumentative arc is its claim that capitalism works together with religion to proliferate harmful systems of punishment. Still, religious communities can also challenge, and even resist, its participation in carcerality with transformative approaches oriented toward abolition. As an abolitionist and thought leader on religion and mass incarceration, I commend the curation and contributions of this significant volume.”