Golden gulag : prisons, surplus, crisis, and opposition in globalizing California /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 1950-
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (413 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:American crossroads ; 21
American crossroads ; 21.
Subject:Prisons -- California.
Prisons -- Economic aspects -- California.
Imprisonment -- California.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- California.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- California.
Minorities -- California.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Economic history.
Imprisonment.
Minorities.
Prisons.
Prisons -- Economic aspects.
Rassendiskriminierung
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Strafjustiz
Strafvollzug
California -- Economic conditions.
California.
Kalifornien
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11218041
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9780520938038
0520938038
129998763X
9781299987630
0520222563
9780520222564
0520242017
9780520242012
9780520222564
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-354) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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.
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
Standard no.:9780520222564
9780520242012