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Cheap on Crime : Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment /
After forty years of increasing prison construction and incarceration rates, winds of change are blowing through the American correctional system. The 2008 financial crisis demonstrated the unsustainability of the incarceration project, thereby empowering policy makers to reform punishment through f...
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| Format: | Online Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2015.
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| Access: | Online version |
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| Summary: | After forty years of increasing prison construction and incarceration rates, winds of change are blowing through the American correctional system. The 2008 financial crisis demonstrated the unsustainability of the incarceration project, thereby empowering policy makers to reform punishment through fiscal prudence and austerity. In Cheap on Crime, Hadar Aviram draws on years of archival and journalistic research and builds on social history and economics literature to show the powerful impact of recession-era discourse on the death penalty, the war on drugs, incarceration practices, prison heal. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 342 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520960329 0520960327 9780520277304 |
| Access: | JSTOR Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons. |