Punishment for Sale

Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Crimes & Criminals, Penology, Reference & Language, Law, Criminal law, Criminology
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Author: Donna Selman, Paul Leighton ISBN: 9781442201743
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Publication: January 16, 2010
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Language: English
Author: Donna Selman, Paul Leighton
ISBN: 9781442201743
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication: January 16, 2010
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English

Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons and the resistance they engendered within the context of criminology, and it is intended for supplemental use in undergraduate and graduate courses in criminology, social problems, and race & ethnicity.

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Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons and the resistance they engendered within the context of criminology, and it is intended for supplemental use in undergraduate and graduate courses in criminology, social problems, and race & ethnicity.

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