Identifying the previously unrecognised connections between American wars and mass incarceration, Prisoners after War reaches across lines of race, class, and gender to record the untold history of incarcerated veterans over the past six decades.
Identifying the previously unrecognised connections between American wars and mass incarceration, Prisoners after War reaches across lines of race, class, and gender to record the untold history of incarcerated veterans over the past six decades.
Jason A. Higgins is the digital scholarship coordinator for Virginia Tech Publishing and an assistant professor jointly affiliated with Virginia Tech University Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. He is the coeditor of Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History.
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List of Figures Preface and Note on Methodology Acknowledgments Introduction Locating Incarcerated Veterans in American History Chapter 1: “Less than” Veterans Discrimination, Discharges, and Disabilities during the Vietnam War Chapter 2: War, Drugs, and the War on Drugs Heroin and Vietnam Veterans during the Rise of Mass Incarceration Chapter 3: Another War, Another Drug Punishment and the Military-Carceral State in the Reagan Era Chapter 4: Leave No Vet Behind Memory of the Vietnam War and the Founding of Veterans Treatment Court Chapter 5: Generation 9/11 Incarcerated Veterans of the Global War on Terrorism Chapter 6: Another Signature Wound Substance Use Disorder and the Opioid Epidemic Chapter 7: “Justice for Vets” A New Veterans’ Movement Chapter 8: . . . And Justice for All Women and Families of Veterans Treatment Court Conclusion No Peace, No Justice Notes Index
List of Figures Preface and Note on Methodology Acknowledgments Introduction Locating Incarcerated Veterans in American History Chapter 1: “Less than” Veterans Discrimination, Discharges, and Disabilities during the Vietnam War Chapter 2: War, Drugs, and the War on Drugs Heroin and Vietnam Veterans during the Rise of Mass Incarceration Chapter 3: Another War, Another Drug Punishment and the Military-Carceral State in the Reagan Era Chapter 4: Leave No Vet Behind Memory of the Vietnam War and the Founding of Veterans Treatment Court Chapter 5: Generation 9/11 Incarcerated Veterans of the Global War on Terrorism Chapter 6: Another Signature Wound Substance Use Disorder and the Opioid Epidemic Chapter 7: “Justice for Vets” A New Veterans’ Movement Chapter 8: . . . And Justice for All Women and Families of Veterans Treatment Court Conclusion No Peace, No Justice Notes Index
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