Golden Gulag
Subtitle: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 8, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780520222564
Subjects: Prisons; Social Science; Imprisonment; Sociology; California; Ethnic Studies - General; Penology; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; United States - State & Local - General; Economic aspects
Description: Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom.