Marie Gottschalk | |
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| Born | December 17, 1958 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Cornell University (BA) Princeton University (MPA) Yale University (MA, PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political science |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Main interests | criminal justice health policy race the welfare state |
| Notable works | The Prison and the Gallows (2006) Caught (2016) |
| Notable ideas | History and critique of the American carceral state |
Marie Gottschalk (born December 17, 1958) is an American political scientist and professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, known for her work on mass incarceration in the United States. Gottschalk is the author of The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (2006) and Caught: the Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics (2016). Her research investigates the origins of the carceral state in the United States, the critiques of the scope and size of the carceral network, and the intersections of the carceral state with race and economic inequality.