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Cheap on crime : recession-era politics and the transformation of American punishment / / Hadar Aviram



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Autore: Aviram Hadar Visualizza persona
Titolo: Cheap on crime : recession-era politics and the transformation of American punishment / / Hadar Aviram Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
Disciplina: 364.60973/090511
Soggetto topico: Corrections - Economic aspects - United States
Prisons - Economic aspects - United States
Soggetto non controllato: 21st century american history
american correctional system
american politics
american prison system
american studies
austerity
cultural studies
death penalty
economics literature
financial crisis
government and governing
great recession
imprisonment
incarceration practices
incarceration rates
legislation
mass incarceration
political debate
politicians
prison construction
prison health care
prison
recession era discourse
social history
united states of america
war on drugs
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Talking about Money and Punishment; 2. A Fiscal History of Mass Incarceration; 3. The Financial Crisis of 2007 and the Birth of Humonetarianism; 4. The New Correctional Discourse of Scarcity: From Ideals to Money on Death Row; 5. The New Coalitions of Financial Prudence: From Tough on Crime to the Drug Truce; 6. The New Carceral Wheeling and Dealing: From Incapacitation to the Inmate Export Business; 7. The New Inmate as a Fiscal Subject: From Ward to Consumer; 8. The Future of Humonetarianism; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D
EF; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Cheap on crime  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-27731-7
0-520-96032-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808108803321
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