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Author Hallett, Michael A.

Title Private prisons in America : a critical race perspective / Michael A. Hallett.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  365.973 H154p 2006    ---  Available
Description xv, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Critical perspectives in criminology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-180) and index.
Contents Race, crime, and for-profit imprisonment -- For-profit imprisonment in American history -- Capitalist crime control : social disorganization as market opportunity -- Money and power : the political economy of prison privatization -- Bad faith : a critical look at "faith-based" corrections -- The easy inmate market : the micropolitics of private prisons -- Commerce with criminals : the new colonialism in criminal justice.
Subject Corrections -- Contracting out -- United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
ISBN 0252073088 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252030699 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. 9780252030697
9780252073083

 
    
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