An edition of Golden Gulag (2007)
Golden Gulag
Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads)
By Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Publish Date
January 8, 2007
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
eng
Pages
412
Description:
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.
subjects: Administration of Criminal justice, Economic conditions, Discrimination in criminal justice administration, Imprisonment, Prisons, Minorities, Strafvollzug, Rassendiskriminierung, Strafjustiz, Sozioökonomischer Wandel, Economic aspects, Economic history, California, economic conditions, Prisoners, united states, Globalization, Sozioèokonomischer Wandel