The prison and the gallows
Subtitle: the politics of mass incarceration in America
By: Marie Gottschalk.
Series: Cambridge studies in criminology; Cambridge studies in criminology (Cambridge University Press)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780521864275; 9780521682916
Subjects: Prisons -- United States; Imprisonment -- Government policy -- United States; Capital punishment -- United States; Prisoners -- United States -- Civil rights; United States -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The prison and the gallows : the construction of the carceral state in America; title: Law, order, and alternative explanations; title: Unlocking the past : the nationalization and politicization of law and order; title: The carceral state and the welfare state : the comparative politics of victims; title: Not the usual suspects : feminists, women's groups, and the anti-rape movement; title: The battered women's movement and the development of penal policy; title: From rights to revolution : prison activism and penal policy; title: Capital punishment, the courts, and the early origins of the carceral state, 1920s-1960s; title: The power to punish : the political development of capital punishment, 1972 to today; title: Whither the carceral state.