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UNINA9910778420303321 |
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Titolo |
Mass imprisonment [[electronic resource] ] : social causes and consequences / / edited by David Garland |
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ISBN |
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9781446221228 |
1446221229 |
9781849208239 |
1849208239 |
9786612337222 |
128233722X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 184 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Imprisonment - United States |
Imprisonment - Social aspects - United States |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction - The meaning of mass imprisonment; 1 - The causes and consequences of prison growth in the United States; 2 - Fear and loathing in late modernity. Reflections on the cultural sources of mass imprisonment in the United States; 3 - Television, public space and prison population. A commentary on Mauer and Simon; 4 - Governing social marginality. Welfare, incarceration, and the transformation of state policy; 5 - The macho penal economy. Mass incarceration in the United States - a European perspective |
6 - Novus ordo saeclorum? A commentary on Downes, and on Beckett and Western7 - Deadly symbiosis. When ghetto and prison meet and mesh; 8 - Going straight. The story of a young inner-city ex-convict; 9 - Bringing the individual back in. A commentary on Wacquant and Anderson; 10 - Imprisonment rates and the new politics of criminal punishment; 11 - Unthought thoughts. The influence of changing sensibilities on penal policies; 12 - Facts, values and prison policies. A commentary on Zimring and Tonry; 13 - The private and the public in |
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