Cheap on crime
Subtitle: recession-era politics and the transformation of American punishment
By: Hadar Aviram
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780520277304; 9780520277311
Subjects: Corrections; Prisons
Other titles: Recession-era politics and the transformation of American punishment
Description: "After forty years of increasing prison construction and incarceration rates, winds of change are blowing through the American correctional system. The 2008 financial crisis demonstrated the unsustainability of the incarceration project, thereby empowering policy makers to reform punishment through fiscal prudence and austerity. In Cheap on Crime, Hadar Aviram draws on years of archival and journalistic research and builds on social history and economics literature to show the powerful impact of recession-era discourse on the death penalty, the war on drugs, incarceration practices, prison health care, and other aspects of the American correctional landscape"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Talking about money and punishment --; title: A fiscal history of mass incarceration --; title: The Financial Crisis of 2007 and the birth of humonetarianism --; title: The new correctional discourse of scarcity : from ideals to money on death row --; title: The new coalition of financial prudence : from tough on crime to the drug truce --; title: The new carceral wheeling and dealing : from incapacitation to the inmate export business --; title: The new inmate as fiscal subject : from ward to consumer --; title: The future of humonetarianism.