Punishment for Sale - Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge

Informationen zum Autor By Donna Selman and Paul Leighton Klappentext Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons and the resistance they engendered within the context of criminology, and it is intended for supplemental use in undergraduate and graduate courses in criminology, social problems, and race & ethnicity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Crime "Problem" and the Free Market "Solution" Chapter 3 The Big Government "Problem" and the Kentucky Fried Prison "Solution" Chapter 4 The Prison-Industrial Complex: Profits, Vested Interests and Politics Chapter 5 Confronting Problems: Blame Prisoners and Contracts Then Get A Bailout Chapter 6 A Critical Look at the Efficiency and Overhead Costs of Private Prisons Chapter 7 Conclusion Chapter 8 Appendix Chapter 9 References

Product details

• Authors: Paul Leighton, Leighton Paul, Donna Selman, Donna Leighton Selman
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2010
• EAN: 9781442201729
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0172-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Issues in Crime and Justice; Issues in Crime and Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Penology and punishment, Prisons