Punishment for sale, private prisons, big business, and the incarceration binge, Donna Selman and Paul Leighton
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Punishment for sale, private prisons, big business, and the incarceration binge, Donna Selman and Paul Leighton
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-193) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Punishment for sale
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
428731383
Responsibility statement
Donna Selman and Paul Leighton
Series statement
Issues in crime & justice
Sub title
private prisons, big business, and the incarceration binge
Summary
Synopsis : 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.--[source unknown]
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- pt. 1. The crime "problem" and the free market "solution" -- America's incarceration binge : the expansion of prisons, budgets, and injustice -- The big government "problem" and the Kentucky fried prison "solution" -- pt. 2. Understanding the operations of prison, inc. -- The prison-industrial complex : profits, vested interests, and politics -- Confronting problems : blame prisoners and contracts, then get a bailout -- A critical look at the efficiency and overhead costs of private prisons -- Conclusion : Back to the future -- Appendix : Using the securities and exchange commission website to research private prisons
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Private prisons, big business, and the incarceration binge
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- Strafvollzug
- Corrections
- Correctional institutions, Costs
- Gefängnis
- Privatization -- United States
- United States
- Prisons, Privatisation
- Corrections + Contracting out -- United States
- USA
- Prisons -- United States
- Correctional institutions
- Correctional institutions, Location
- Corrections + Contracting out
- Privatisierung
- United States
- Corrections research
- Correctional institutions, Management of
- Privatization
- Prisons
- Prisons, Government policy
- Privatisation
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- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Subject21
- Strafvollzug
- Corrections
- Correctional institutions, Costs
- Gefängnis
- Privatization -- United States
- United States
- Prisons, Privatisation
- Corrections + Contracting out -- United States
- USA
- Prisons -- United States
- Correctional institutions
- Correctional institutions, Location
- Corrections + Contracting out
- Privatisierung
- United States
- Corrections research
- Correctional institutions, Management of
- Privatization
- Prisons
- Prisons, Government policy
- Privatisation
- Content1
- Is Part Of1
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