Bibliograph

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From Gulag to Guantanamo, political, social and economic evolutions of mass incarceration, Wesley Kendall

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

From Gulag to Guantanamo

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

923665816

Responsibility statement

Wesley Kendall

Sub title

political, social and economic evolutions of mass incarceration

Summary

"From Gulag to Guantanamo offers the reader an incisive view into the political, social and economic evolutions of mass incarceration across the globe. It examines the different political and social contexts that combine with free market mechanisms of mass incarceration to ascertain how economic incentives shape penal policy. Analyzing a wide variety of incarceration forms, each chapter compares a U.S. example with a non-U.S. case study, showing how countries that occupy the economic forefront of prison privatization are exporting new models of penal institutionalization. The chapters examine issues such as the privatization of asylum detention centres, the economic impacts of maintaining vast forced labour camps, the incarceration of children for profit and the use of state-sanctioned torture. Capturing a nascent international trend through an interdisciplinary lens, this book questions why so many languish in prison, whether the incarceration of thousands benefits society as a whole and how penal policies might be roundly reconsidered."--Page 4 of cover

Table Of Contents

A primer on the evolution of the penitentiary -- The institution of American slavery and the evolution of modern mass incarceration: a critical assessment of forced labour in America and China -- Reaping refugees: privatized immigration detention centres -- Condemned kids: the incarceration of children for profit -- From Gulag to Guantanamo: state-sanctioned torture and the global convergence of corporate states

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