Sunbelt justice
Subtitle: Arizona and the transformation of American punishment
By: Mona Lynch.
Series: Critical perspectives on crime and law; Critical perspectives on crime and law
Publisher: Stanford Law Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780804762847; 9780804762854
Subjects: Imprisonment -- Arizona -- History; Punishment -- Arizona -- History; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Arizona -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : from the reformative project to the warehousing solution; title: Arizona's political and penal roots; title: The dawn of progress and the making of a new bureaucracy; title: An institution in search of meaning; title: The new-old penal regime; title: The postrehabilitative prototype is realized; title: Taking back the prisons; title: Making meaning of the Arizona case; title: Epilogue : the parallel universe.