Cashing in on crime : the drive to privatize California state prisons / / Karyl Kicenski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460662903321
• Autore: Kicenski Karyl
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boulder, Colorado : , : FirstForumPress, Incorporated, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-62637-297-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (170 p.)
• Disciplina: 365/.9794
• Soggetti: Prison-industrial complex - California; Prison industries - California; Prisons - California; Corrections - California; Privatization - California; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; ch1-The Emergence of Private Prisons; Public Versus Private?; The Start of Privatization; Privatization Stalls in California; Theoretical Approaches; ch2-Transformations of the Prison Landscape; Penal Welfarism: The Progressive Era of Criminal Justice; Penal Welfarist Policies; Ideology and Penal Welfarism; Social Science Research and the Criminal Justice Practicioner; The Attack on Penal Welfarism; The Limitations of the Welfare State; Political Realignments; Gubernatorial Politics in California and the Impact of Ronald ReaganNew Criminal Justice Realities in a Law and Order Era; ch3-Economic Issues; California Economy: The Early Twentieth Century; Economic Downturn: The Late Twentieth Century to the Present; Economic Crises in California; The Special Case of Demographics within California; Making Sense of a New Economy and Criminal Justice Realities; The California State Budget and Correctional Institutions; The Logic of Private Prisons in California; ch4-The Political-Legislative Sphere; California's New Penology; The Rise of Penal Populism; Victims' Rights: A New Morality?ch5-Taking Account of Ideologies; The ; Culture of Fear Defined; The Culture of Fear in California; The Irony of Fearfulness in California; Mass Media and the Culture of Fear; Government and the Culture of Fear; Effects of the Culture of Fear Upon Criminal Justice; The Mystification of the "Free" Market; Ideological Images of the Offender; Criminality Is a Function of Nature (Not Nurture); California Prisons: Where Are the Superpredators?; The (Re)Construction of Deviance Through Crime Control; ch6-Why Privatization Failed; Making Sense of the "Failed" Private Prison Boom in CaliforniaThe CCPOA: There's Power in Prisons; The CCPOA: Picking Candidates and Attacking Foes; The Battles Over the CCFs; The CCPOA Meets "the Governator"; Private Prisons: To Be Continued?; ch7-The Mythology of Privatization; Mythology Interpreted; Imprisonment Is Our Best Option; Market Capitalism Will Solve State Problems; Public Provision Is Not Private Provision (With One Exception); Safety at Any Cost; The Logic of Privatization; Bibliography; Index; About the Book