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

For the past 50 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. In...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eason, John Major
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2017.
Temas:
Forrest City Federal Correctional Facility.
Forrest City Federal Correctional Facility
1900-1999
Prisons > Location > United States.
Prisons > Social aspects > United States.
Sociology, Rural.
Prisons > Localisation > États-Unis.
Prisons > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Sociologie rurale.
rural sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Prisons > Location
Prisons > Social aspects
Rural conditions
Social conditions
Sociology, Rural
Forrest City (Ark.) > Social conditions.
United States > Rural conditions > 20th century.
Arkansas > Forrest City
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Glossary; One / Introduction: The Causes and Consequences of the Prison Boom; Part I: Prison Placement ; Two / Have you Seen My Backyard?: Rural Ecology, Disrepute, and Prison Placement; Three / "It's Like the City, Only Quieter": Making the Rural Ghetto; Four / Finding Beauty in the Hideous: Prison Placement as Reputation Management; Five / How Not in My Backyard Became Please in My Backyard: Toward a Model of Prison Placement; Part II: Prison Impact ; Six / The Prison in My Backyard: Reconsidering Impact.
  • Seven / The Tarnished Jewel of the Delta: Continuity and Change in Caste, Class, and Disrepute; Eight / Bringing Down the Big House: The Political Economy of Prison Proliferation; Acknowledgments; Methodological Appendix A; Methodological Appendix B; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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