{"product_id":"no-permanent-structures-9798235550773","title":"No Permanent Structures","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Corey J. Smith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Erica Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Erica Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethics \u0026amp; Moral Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNO PERMANENT STRUCTURES: Why Black Men Must Renegotiate Power and Reform Justice \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn NO PERMANENT STRUCTURES, Corey James Smith delivers a powerful political and social examination of how systems of punishment, sentencing, and institutional control were constructed - and why they can be reconstructed. Blending personal testimony, political science, legal analysis, historical insight, and community philosophy, this book challenges the belief that prison, violence, poverty, and generational trauma are permanent conditions for Black men in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough sharp analysis and emotionally grounded storytelling, Smith exposes how sentencing enhancements, habitual offender laws, prosecutorial power, economic abandonment, and failed social structures have created cycles that trap generations inside systems designed more for permanence than rehabilitation. But this book is not built on despair. It is built on renegotiation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the center of the work is a bold argument: if laws, institutions, and systems were constructed by human hands, they can also be dismantled, redesigned, and rebuilt through organized thought, policy reform, leadership, education, and community power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom courtrooms to neighborhoods, from prison cells to political strategy, NO PERMANENT STRUCTURES explores: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe architecture of mass incarceration \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStructural inequality and sentencing design \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eViolence as a learned survival structure \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProsecutorial influence and systemic imbalance \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSecond-look sentencing reform \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCommunity-based conflict resolution \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePolitical consciousness and institutional accountability \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe psychological impact of permanence on Black identity and survival \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with urgency, intelligence, and lived perspective, this book speaks directly to lawmakers, activists, educators, incarcerated individuals, community leaders, and readers searching for deeper answers about justice, power, and transformation in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNO PERMANENT STRUCTURES is more than a critique of the system. It is a blueprint for rebuilding it. ","brand":"Erica Mitchell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969346584727,"sku":"9798235550773","price":1401.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798235550773.webp?v=1782921441","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/no-permanent-structures-9798235550773","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}