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
Autor principal: Lynch, Michael J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
Social Sciences.
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Strafvollzug
Kriminalpolitik
Imprisonment.
Criminals > Rehabilitation.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Criminal law.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
criminal law.
Droit penal.
Justice penale > Administration > États-Unis.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
Rehabilitation > États-Unis.
Criminal Law
Criminals
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
Criminals > Rehabilitation > United States.
USA.
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
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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