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Cheap on Crime : Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment /

After forty years of increasing prison construction and incarceration rates, winds of change are blowing through the American correctional system. The 2008 financial crisis demonstrated the unsustainability of the incarceration project, thereby empowering policy makers to reform punishment through f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aviram, Hadar (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:After forty years of increasing prison construction and incarceration rates, winds of change are blowing through the American correctional system. The 2008 financial crisis demonstrated the unsustainability of the incarceration project, thereby empowering policy makers to reform punishment through fiscal prudence and austerity. In Cheap on Crime, Hadar Aviram draws on years of archival and journalistic research and builds on social history and economics literature to show the powerful impact of recession-era discourse on the death penalty, the war on drugs, incarceration practices, prison heal.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 342 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520960329
0520960327