Punishment for sale
Subtitle: private prisons, big business, and the incarceration binge
By: Donna Selman and Paul Leighton
Contributors: Leighton, Paul, 1964-
Series: Issues in crime & justice; Issues in crime & justice (Lanham, Md.)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781442201729; 9781442201736; 9781442201743
Description: Synopsis : Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons and the resistance they engendered within the context of criminology, and it is intended for supplemental use in undergraduate and graduate courses in criminology, social problems, and race & ethnicity.--[source unknown].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: America's incarceration binge : the expansion of prisons, budgets, and injustice; title: The big government "problem" and the Kentucky fried prison "solution"; title: The prison-industrial complex : profits, vested interests, and politics; title: Confronting problems : blame prisoners and contracts, then get a bailout; title: A critical look at the efficiency and overhead costs of private prisons; title: Conclusion : back to the future.