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Description for Sunbelt Justice
Hardback. The story of the dramatic spread of mass incarceration across the United States, through a close look at the development of Arizona's punishment politics, policies, and practices. Series: Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 tables, 1 figure, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; JKV; LAR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 499.
In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 million people are held in state and federal prisons. Arizona's Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift toward prison warehousing began, and soon led the pack in using punitive incarceration in response to crime. Sunbelt Justice looks at the development of Arizona's punishment politics, policies, and practices, and brings to light just how and why we have become a mass incarceration nation.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804762847
SKU
V9780804762847
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Mona Lynch
Mona Lynch is Associate Professor in the Criminology, Law & Society Department at the University of California, Irvine. In addition to authoring numerous articles, she has contributed essays to After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction (2008), and From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (2006).
Reviews for Sunbelt Justice
"Sunbelt Justice is full of colorful characters who do not hesitate to express their devotion to discipline and to express their resentment of outsiders who meddle in their institutions.... It effectively shows that Arizona and the other new states of the American Southwest were always more dubious about rehabilitative approaches to imprisonment than the Northeast and Midwest."—Doris Marie Provine The ... Read more