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Uncovers the inherently religious structure of the criminalization of Black, Indigenous, and dispossessed peoples
Most popular critical accounts of mass criminalization interpret police and prisons as purely social or political phenomena. While such accounts have been indispensable in moving millions into collective action and resistance, the carceral state remains as pervasive as ever.
White Property, Black Trespass argues that understanding why we have police and prisons, and building a world of safety and abundance beyond them, requires that we acknowledge the inherently religious function that criminalization fulfills for a colonial and racial capitalist order that puts its faith in cops and cages to save it from the existential threat of disorder that its own structural violence creates.
The story of criminalization, Krinks shows, begins with the eurochristian aspiration to become God at the expense of all othersan aspiration that gives rise to the

White Property Black Trespass

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      Publisher New York University Press
      Published 8/20/2024
      ISBN-13 9781479823857
      978-1479823857
      ISBN-10 1479823856
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Uncovers the inherently religious structure of the criminalization of Black, Indigenous, and dispossessed peoples
      Most popular critical accounts of mass criminalization interpret police and prisons as purely social or political phenomena. While such accounts have been indispensable in moving millions into collective action and resistance, the carceral state remains as pervasive as ever.
      White Property, Black Trespass argues that understanding why we have police and prisons, and building a world of safety and abundance beyond them, requires that we acknowledge the inherently religious function that criminalization fulfills for a colonial and racial capitalist order that puts its faith in cops and cages to save it from the existential threat of disorder that its own structural violence creates.
      The story of criminalization, Krinks shows, begins with the eurochristian aspiration to become God at the expense of all othersan aspiration that gives rise to the

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