Building the Prison State : Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration /

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world-about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people-while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disparities in incarceration, the prison system also reinf...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schoenfeld, Heather (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]
Colección:Chicago Series in Law and Society
Temas:
Crime and race > Florida.
Crime and race > United States.
Crime and race-Florida.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Florida.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of-Florida.
Criminal law > Florida.
Criminal law > United States.
Criminal law-Florida.
Prisons > Florida.
Prisons > United States.
Prisons-Florida.
LAW / General.
American political development.
Florida.
carceral state.
crime control policy.
crime.
mass incarceration.
politics.
prisons.
race.
state capacity.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Chapter One. A New Perspective on the Carceral State
  • Chapter Two: Penal Modernization in the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1970
  • Chapter Three: Prison Overcrowding and the Legal Challenge to Florida's Prison System, 1970-1980
  • Chapter Four: The Unintended Consequences of Prison Litigation, 1980-1991
  • Chapter Five: The Politics of Early Release, 1991-1995
  • Chapter Six: Republicans, Prosecutors, and the Carceral Ethos, 1995-2008
  • Chapter Seven: Recession-Era Colorblind Politics and the Challenge of Decarceration, 2008-2016
  • Chapter Eight: Toward a New Ethos
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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