Big House on the Prairie : Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation /

For the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970 we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country but is largely concentrated in rural southern towns....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eason, John M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]
Temas:
Prisons > Location > United States.
Prisons > Social aspects > United States.
Sociology, Rural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
ghetto.
political economy.
prison industrial complex.
prisons.
punishment.
racism.
rural.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • GLOSSARY
  • ONE. Introduction: The Causes and Consequences of the Prison Boom
  • PART ONE. Prison Placement
  • PART TWO. Prison Impact
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX A. The Multiple Imagined Positionalities of the Black Scholar in the Deep South
  • METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX B. Research Design
  • NOTES
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX

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