UID:
edocfu_9959238136502883
Format:
1 online resource (413 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-520-22256-3
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0-520-93803-8
Series Statement:
American Crossroads ; v.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:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Prologue: The Bus; 1. Introduction; 2. The California Political Economy; 3. The Prison Fix; 4. Crime, Croplands, and Capitalism; 5. Mothers Reclaiming Our Children; 6. What Is to Be Done?; Epilogue: Another Bus; Notes; Bibliography and References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-24201-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-98763-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-22256-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520938038
