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Private prisons in America : a critical race perspective / Michael A. Hallett.

Title
Private prisons in America : a critical race perspective / Michael A. Hallett.
Author
Hallett, Michael A.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

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Description
xv, 188 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
Under the auspices of a governmentally sanctioned "war on drugs," incarceration rates in the United States have risen dramatically since 1980. Increasingly, correctional administrators at all levels are turning to private, for-profit corporations to manage the swelling inmate population. Policy discussions of this trend toward prison privatization tend to focus on cost-effectiveness, contract monitoring, and enforcement, but Hallett reveals that these issues are only part of the story. Demonstrating that imprisonment serves numerous agendas other than "crime control," Hallett's analysis suggests that private prisons are best understood not as the product of increasing crime rates, but instead as the latest chapter in a troubling history of discrimination aimed primarily at African American men. – from publisher description.
Series Statement
Critical perspectives in criminology
Uniform Title
Critical perspectives in criminology
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-180) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Race, crime and for-profit imprisonment -- For-profit imprisonment in American history -- Capitalist crime control : social disorganization as market opportunity -- Money and power : the political economy of prison privatization -- Bad faith : a critical look at "faith-based" corrections -- The easy inmate market : the micropolitics of private prisons -- Commerce with criminals : the new colonialism in criminal justice.
ISBN
  • 9780252030697 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252030699 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780252073083 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0252073088 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2005017072
OCLC
  • 60776574
  • SCSB-10379209
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library