Cheap on crime : recession-era politics and the transformation of American punishment / Hadar Aviram.
Aviram, Hadar, author.
2015
HV9471 .A957 2015eb
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Title
Cheap on crime : recession-era politics and the transformation of American punishment / Hadar Aviram.
Author
Aviram, Hadar, author.
Variant Title
Recession-era politics and the transformation of American punishment
ISBN
9780520960329 (electronic book)
9780520277304
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages)
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HV9471 .A957 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.60973/090511
Summary
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.
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Introduction
Talking about money and punishment
A fiscal history of mass incarceration
The Financial Crisis of 2007 and the birth of humonetarianism
The new correctional discourse of scarcity : from ideals to money on death row
The new coalition of financial prudence : from tough on crime to the drug truce
The new carceral wheeling and dealing : from incapacitation to the inmate export business
The new inmate as fiscal subject : from ward to consumer
The future of humonetarianism.

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