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Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge

By Donna Selman , Paul Leighton

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
2010
ISBN
144220172X, 9781442201729
LCC
HV9469 .S45 2009
Open Library ID
OL23643737M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
894 kB (915424 bytes)
Pages
217\217
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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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