| From Gulag to Guantanamo: Political, Social and Economic Evolutions of Mass Incarceration Contributor(s): Kendall, Wesley (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783484691 ISBN-13: 9781783484690 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $142.56 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - General - Social Science | Criminology - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 365.9 |
| LCCN: 2015037001 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.85 lbs) 202 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book offers the reader an incisive view into the political, social and economic evolutions of mass incarceration across the globe. It examines the different political and social contexts that combine with free market mechanisms of mass incarceration to ascertain how economic incentives shape penal policy. Using qualitative analysis of a wide variety of incarceration forms, each chapter compares a US example with a non-US case study, showing how first world countries that occupy the economic forefront of prison privatization are exporting new models of penal institutionalization to developing countries. The chapters examine issues such as the privatization of asylum detention centres, the economic impacts of maintaining vast forced labour camps, the social consequences of imprisoning journalists, and the use of state sanctioned torture. Capturing a nascent international trend through an interdisciplinary lens, this book questions why so many languish in prison, whether the incarceration of thousands benefits society as a whole, and how these penal policies might be roundly reconsidered. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kendall, Wesley: - Wesley Kendall is a Law Lecturer at the University of the South Pacific. |
