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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	März 2006
Genre:	Wirtschaft / Recht
ISBN:	9780252073083
EAN-Code:	9780252073083
Verlag:	University Of Illinois Press
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Critical Perspectives in Criminology
Dimensionen:	H 228 mm / B 150 mm / D 16 mm
Gewicht:	306 gr
Seiten:	208
Illustration:	17 photographs
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Inhalt:

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 private prisons are best understood not as the product of increasing crime rates, but instead as the latest chapter in a troubling history of discrimination aimed primarily at African American men.