Big prisons, big dreams : crime and the failure of America's penal system /
"The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased. This doesn't surprise Michael J. Lynch, a critical criminologist, who argues that our oversized prison system is a product of our consumer culture, the public's inac...
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2007.
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| Series: | Critical issues in crime and society.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Big, dark secrets, and America's prison system
- Prisons and crime
- The growth of America's prison system
- Raising questions about America's big prison system
- Explaining prison growth in the United States: the materialist perspective
- Prison effects: who gets locked up
- The imprisonment binge and crime
- The end of oil and the future of American prisons
- A consuming culture.
