Over the past 35 years, public and private actors have turned US criminal justice institutions into a vast network of revenue-generating operations. Today, practices such as fines, fees, forfeitures, prison charges, and bail premiums transfer billions of dollars from oppressed communities to governments and corporations. Guided by scholarship on racial capitalism, we argue that to understand how and why criminal justice operates as it does today, one must attend to its predatory dimensions. Analytically and politically, the concept of predation connects diverse forms of criminal legal takings to one another, to the extractive regimes of earlier eras, and to contemporary businesses that financially exploit subjugated communities. Analyses that focus on predatory relations encourage a reconsideration of some dominant understandings in the study of criminal justice today.

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刑事司法的掠夺性维度

在过去 35 年中，公共和私人行为者已将美国刑事司法机构转变为庞大的创收业务网络。今天，罚款、收费、没收、监狱收费和保释金等做法将数十亿美元从受压迫社区转移到政府和公司。在种族资本主义学术研究的指导下，我们认为要理解刑事司法如何以及为什么会像今天这样运作，必须关注其掠夺性维度。在分析和政治上，掠夺的概念将各种形式的刑事法律征收相互联系起来，与早期时代的采掘制度以及在经济上剥削被征服社区的当代企业联系起来。