| ENTRY | ACQUISITION DATE | LOCATION |
| 18455 | 2009-07-16 | 343.81:334(73) H 186 |
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| TITLE |
| PRIVATE PRISONS IN AMERICA: A CRITICAL RACE PERSPECTIVE |
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| ABSTRACT |
| This book argues that the last decades’ dramatic increase in prisoners, especially African Americans whose imprisonment rate is significantly higher than the one for whites, in the United States is due to private prison corporations’ economic interests in high incarceration rates and to racist attitudes, and that it has little to do with crime control or victim protection. Many different aspects of private prisons are discussed. The book notes a movement towards seeing crime as a moral choice rather than a problem with social causes, which it criticises, arguing that it is an instrument in the privatisation of prisons. |
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| AUTHOR(S) |
| HALLETT, MICHAEL A. |
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| PUBLISHER | PLACE | YEAR | SERIES |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS | CHAMPAIGN, IL | 2006 | CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN CRIMINOLOGY |
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| PAGES | EDITION | NOTES |
| 203 | | 23 CM -- BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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