1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002224690203316

Autore

SEATZU, Francesco

Titolo

Insurance in private international law : a european perspective / Francesco Seatzu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford [etc.] : Hart publishing, 2003

ISBN

1-84113-335-3

Descrizione fisica

XXXI, 313 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

340.9

Soggetti

Assicurazione <diritto privato internazionale>

Collocazione

XXIII.4.K. 25

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957103003321

Autore

Gilmore Ruth Wilson <1950->

Titolo

Golden gulag : prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

9780520222564

0520222563

9780520938038

0520938038

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 p.)

Collana

American Crossroads ; ; v.21

Classificazione

HIS036140LAW026020SOC004000

Disciplina

365.9794

Soggetti

California -- Economic conditions

Criminal justice, Administration of -- California

Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- California

Imprisonment -- California

Minorities -- California

Prisons -- California

Prisons -- Economic aspects -- California

Prisons - Economic aspects - California



Prisons - California

Imprisonment - California

Criminal justice, Administration of - California

Discrimination in criminal justice administration - California

Minorities - California

Social Welfare & Social Work

Social Sciences

Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency

California Economic conditions

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Prologue: The Bus; 1. Introduction; 2. The California Political Economy; 3. The Prison Fix; 4. Crime, Croplands, and Capitalism; 5. Mothers Reclaiming Our Children; 6. What Is to Be Done?; Epilogue: Another Bus; Notes; Bibliography and References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom.  In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspe