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ISBN: 1316553752 1316554031 1316554597 1316554317 1316555712 1316471020 1107132886 1316500616 9781316500613 9781107132887 1316552071 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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The rise of mass incarceration in the United States is one of the most critical outcomes of the last half-century. Incarceration Nation offers the most compelling explanation of this outcome to date. This book combines in-depth analysis of Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon's presidential campaigns with sixty years of data analysis. The result is a sophisticated and highly accessible picture of the rise of mass incarceration. In contrast to conventional wisdom, Peter K. Enns shows that during the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, politicians responded to an increasingly punitive public by pushing policy in a more punitive direction. The book also argues that media coverage of rising crime rates helped fuel the public's punitiveness. Equally as important, a decline in public punitiveness in recent years offers a critical window into understanding current bipartisan calls for criminal justice reform.
Imprisonment --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Corrections --- Correctional services --- Penology --- Confinement --- Incarceration --- Detention of persons --- Punishment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Prisons --- History. --- United States --- Politics and government. --- Government --- History, Political --- School-to-prison pipeline --- Imprisonment - United States - History --- Criminal justice, Administration of - United States - History --- Corrections - United States - History --- United States - Politics and government
ISBN: 9780521537834 9780521830966 0521830966 0521537835 9780511511721 051138999X 1107174627 9786611370459 0511394063 0511393261 0511511728 0511390750 1281370452 0511391951 0511394713 9780511394713 9780511394065 9781107174627 9781281370457 6611370455 9780511393266 9780511391958 9780511390753 Year: 2008 Volume: *6 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press
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America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this groundbreaking reinterpretation of penal history, Rebecca McLennan covers the periods of deep instability, popular protest, and political crisis that characterized early American prisons. She details the debates surrounding prison reform, including the limits of state power, the influence of market forces, the role of unfree labor, and the 'just deserts' of wrongdoers. McLennan also explores the system that existed between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, where private companies relied on prisoners for labor. Finally, she discusses the rehabilitation model that has primarily characterized the penal system in the twentieth century. Unearthing fresh evidence from prison and state archives, McLennan shows how, in each of three distinct periods of crisis, widespread dissent culminated in the dismantling of old systems of imprisonment.
Protest movements --- Convict labor --- Imprisonment --- Punishment --- Criminal law --- Labor movement --- History --- United States --- Politics and government --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Arts and Humanities --- Crime --- Crimes and misdemeanors --- Criminals --- Law, Criminal --- Penal codes --- Penal law --- Pleas of the crown --- Public law --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal procedure --- Confinement --- Incarceration --- Corrections --- Detention of persons --- Prison-industrial complex --- Prisons --- School-to-prison pipeline --- Lease system --- Prison labor --- Forced labor --- Prisoners --- Social movements --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Protest movements - United States - History --- Convict labor - United States - History --- Imprisonment - United States - History --- Punishment - United States - History --- Criminal law - United States - History --- Labor movement - United States - History --- United States - Politics and government
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