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Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment (Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law)by Mona Pauline Lynch
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 million people are held in state and federal prisons. Arizona's Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift toward prison warehousing began, and soon led the pack in using punitive incarceration in response to crime. Sunbelt Justice looks at the development of Arizona's punishment politics, policies, and practices, and brings to light just how and why we have become a mass incarceration nation. Book News Annotation:In the early 1970s there were fewer than 500,000 prisoners
incarcerated in Federal and state prisons in the US: a rate of
approximately 100 imprisoned persons per 100,000 of population. Today
more than 1.5 million people are imprisoned in the US at a rate of
more than 400 per 100,000 people in the general population. Where the
penal system thirty years ago was focused on rehabilitation, the
emphasis now is on punishment of criminals and keeping society safe.
This book looks at Arizona as a microcosm of the US as a whole in
tracking trends and changes that have taken place in criminal justice
over time.
Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:The story of the dramatic spread of mass incarceration across the United States, through a close look at the development of Arizona's punishment politics, policies, and practices. About the AuthorMona Lynch is Associate Professor in the Criminology, Law and Society Department at the University of California, Irvine. In addition to authoring numerous articles, she has contributed essays to After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction (2008), and From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (2006). What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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