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Private Prisons in America
Michael A. Hallett
其他書名
A Critical Race Perspective
出版University of Illinois Press, 2006
主題Law / Criminal Law / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheorySocial Science / CriminologySocial Science / PenologySocial Science / Discrimination
ISBN02520730889780252073083
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cF5Md6QXQNEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Under the auspices of a governmentally sanctioned "war on drugs," incarceration rates in the United States have risen dramatically since 1980. Increasingly, correctional administrators at all levels are turning to private, for-profit corporations to manage the swelling inmate population. Policy discussions of this trend toward prison privatization tend to focus on cost-effectiveness, contract monitoring, and enforcement, but in his Private Prisons in America, Michael A. Hallett reveals that these issues are only part of the story. Demonstrating that imprisonment serves numerous agendas other than "crime control," Hallett's analysis suggests that private prisons are best understood not as the product of increasing crime rates, but instead as the latest chapter in a troubling history of discrimination aimed primarily at African American men.