Inside Private Prisons : An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration

When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states and federa...
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Eisen, Lauren-Brooke [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

New York: Columbia University Press ; 2018

Rechteinformationen:

Restricted Access

Schlagwörter:

Corrections, Contracting out, United States

Prisons, United States

Privatization, United States

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology

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De Gruyter - University Press Pilot Project. eBook available to select US libraries only

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (xii, 321 Seiten)

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

978-0-231-54231-9

DOI / URN:

10.7312/eise17970

Katalog-ID:

1028678363

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