Big prisons, big dreams : crime and the failure of America's penal system /

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"The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased. This doesn't surprise Michael J. Lynch, a critical criminologist, who argues that our oversized prison system is a product of our consumer culture, the public's inac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lynch, Michael J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Critical issues in crime and society.
Temas:
Criminals > Rehabilitation > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Criminal law.
Criminals
Criminal Law
Réhabilitation > États-Unis.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
Justice pénale > Administration > États-Unis.
Droit pénal.
criminal law.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Criminal law
Criminal justice, Administration of
Criminals > Rehabilitation
Imprisonment
Kriminalpolitik
Strafvollzug
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
United States
USA
USA.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Big, dark secrets, and America's prison system
  • Prisons and crime
  • The growth of America's prison system
  • Raising questions about America's big prison system
  • Explaining prison growth in the United States: the materialist perspective
  • Prison effects: who gets locked up
  • The imprisonment binge and crime
  • The end of oil and the future of American prisons
  • A consuming culture.

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