The prison and the gallows : the politics of mass incarceration in America / / Marie Gottschalk [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Gottschalk Marie
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 451 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 365/.973
• Soggetto topico: Prisons - United States; Imprisonment - Government policy - United States; Capital punishment - United States; Prisoners - Civil rights - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-427) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The prison and the gallows : the construction of the carceral state in America -- Law, order, and alternative explanations -- Unlocking the past : the nationalization and politicization of law and order -- The carceral state and the welfare state : the comparative politics of victims -- Not the usual suspects : feminists, women's groups, and the anti-rape movement -- The battered women's movement and the development of penal policy -- From rights to revolution : prison activism and the carceral state -- Capital punishment, the courts, and the early origins of the carceral state, 1920s-1960s -- The power to punish and execute : the political development of capital punishment, 1972 to today -- Conclusion : whither the carceral state?
• Sommario/riassunto: The United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding children and the elderly, is incarcerated today, a rate unsurpassed anywhere else in the world. What are some of the main political forces that explain this unprecedented reliance on mass imprisonment? Throughout American history, crime and punishment have been central features of American political development. This 2006 book examines the development of four key movements that mediated the construction of the carceral state in important ways: the victims' movement, the women's movement, the prisoners' rights movement, and opponents of the death penalty. This book argues that punitive penal policies were forged by particular social movements and interest groups within the constraints of larger institutional structures and historical developments that distinguish the United States from other Western countries.
• Altri titoli varianti: The Prison & the Gallows
• Titolo autorizzato: The prison and the gallows
• ISBN: 0-511-22396-X; 1-107-16938-0; 1-280-54141-5; 0-511-79109-7; 0-511-22646-2; 0-511-22589-X; 0-511-22461-3; 0-511-31639-9; 0-511-22528-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248224603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge studies in criminology.