Format:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 390 pages)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780520938038
Series Statement:
American crossroads 21
Content:
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. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspe
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-354) and index
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Prologue: The busIntroduction -- The California political economy -- The prison fix -- Crime, croplands, and capitalism -- Mothers Reclaiming Our Children -- What is to be done? -- Epilogue: Another bus.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520222564
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520242012
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 1950 - Golden gulag Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007 ISBN 0520222563
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520242017
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520222564
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520242012
Language:
English
Keywords:
Kalifornien
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Strafvollzug
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Rassendiskriminierung
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Strafjustiz
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Sozioökonomischer Wandel
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