Christian Parenti is an American investigative journalist and scholar. His books include: Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (2000), a survey of the rise of the prison industrial complex from the Nixon through Reagan eras and into the present; The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror (2003), a study of surveillance and control in modern society. His most recent book, The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (2004), is an account of the US occupation in Iraq. Parenti has also reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela, and Bolivia. Parenti's work is usually published in The Nation, and he frequently appears on Doug Henwood's radio show, Behind The News, to discuss it. He also writes for many other publications, including the London Review of Books and Mother Jones and Conde Nast Traveller. He was a visiting fellow at CUNY'

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