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ISBN: | 9780520938038 0520938038 129998763X 9781299987630 0520222563 9780520222564 0520242017 9780520242012 9780520222564
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-354) and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | 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.
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Other form: | Print version: Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Golden gulag : prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007 xxii, 388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. American crossroads ; 21 9780520222564
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Standard no.: | 9780520222564 9780520242012
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