Golden Gulag
Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
Format: Book
Description: xxii, 388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom.
Series: American crossroads ; 21.
Contents:
Prologue: The bus -- Introduction -- The California political economy -- The prison fix -- Crime, croplands, and capitalism -- Mothers Reclaiming Our Children -- What is to be done? -- Epilogue: Another bus.
Subjects:
Prisons -- California.
Prisons -- Economic aspects -- California.
Imprisonment -- California.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- California.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- California.
Minorities -- California.
California -- Economic conditions.
Prisons -- California.
Prisons -- Economic aspects -- California.
Imprisonment -- California.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- California.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- California.
Minorities -- California.
California -- Economic conditions.
ISBN:
9780520222564
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Crime Punishment Gil | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
SOCIAL SCI Crime Punishment Gil | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-354) and index.