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

• Autore: Kicenski Karyl
• Pubblicazione: Boulder, Colorado : , : FirstForumPress, Incorporated, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (170 p.)
• Disciplina: 365/.9794
• Soggetto topico: Prison-industrial complex - California; Prison industries - California; Prisons - California; Corrections - California; Privatization - California
• 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
• Sommario/riassunto: What explains the boom in private prisons—especially since the record of privatization for rehabilitating prisoners and saving taxpayer dollars is, at best, mixed? Karyl Kicenski examines the privatization of California state prisons to illuminate the forces that shape and distort our criminal justice policies. Tracing the growth of private prisons from 1980 to the current day, Kicenski explores the role of political and economic factors, as well as the impact of changing public attitudes toward crime and governance. The result is a clear set of lessons for the uneasy partnership between public safety and for-profit enterprise.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cashing in on crime
• ISBN: 1-62637-297-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808329503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II