Private Prisons in America
A Critical Race Perspective
Under the auspices of a governmentally sanctioned war on drugs, incarceration rates in the United States have risen dramatically since 1980. Increasingly, correctional administrators at all levels are turning to private, for-profit corporations to manage the swelling inmate population. Policy discussions of this trend toward prison privatization tend to focus on cost-effectiveness, contract monitoring, and enforcement, but in his Private Prisons in America, Michael A. Hallett reveals that these issues are only part of the story. Demonstrating that imprisonment serves numerous agendas other than crime control, Hallett's analysis suggests that…
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- ISBN: 978-0-252-07308-3
- EAN: 9780252073083
- Produktnummer: 1488315
- Verlag: University of Illinois Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.6 cm 306 g
- Abbildungen: 17 photographs
- Gewicht: 306
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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