The politics of imprisonment
Subtitle: how the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders
By: Vanessa Barker.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780195370027
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- States; Criminals -- United States -- States; Imprisonment -- United States -- States; Equality -- United States; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The democratic process & imprisonment; title: Explaining penal regime variation : political structures & collective agency; title: The case of California : neo-populism & retribution; title: Washington State deliberates : from fortress prison to de-escalation; title: New York : elite pragmatism & managerialism; title: Democratic governance, social trust & penal order; title: Appendix A: Selected US imprisonment rates, 1971-2006.