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Prison Bureaucracies in the United States, Mexico, India, and Honduras (Hardcover)
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Prison Bureaucracies in the United States, Mexico, India, and Honduras (Hardcover)
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Modern criminal justice institutions globally include police,
criminal courts, and prisons. Prisons, unlike courts which
developed out of an old aristocratic function and unlike police
which developed out of an ancient posse or standing army function,
are only about 200 years old and are humanitarian inventions.
Prisons, defined as modern institutions that deprive the freedom of
individuals who violate societies' most basic norms in lieu of
corporal or capital punishment, were near universal at the dawn of
the 21st century and their use was expanding globally. The US alone
spent $60 billion on prisons in 2014. Prison Bureaucracies
addresses two fundamental questions. Do prisons in Christian,
Hindu, and Muslim societies separated by space and level of
socioeconomic development follow a common evolutionary path? Given
that differences in prison structure and performance exist, what
factors-resources, laws, leadership, historical accident,
institutions, culture-account for differences? Based on more than
150 interviews conducted in ten international trips with prison
administrators in 15 male state prisons in the US, Mexico, India,
and Honduras, Norris provides ethnographic descriptions of prisons
bureaucracies that are immediately recognizable as similar
institutions, but that nonetheless possessed distinctive forms and
developmental trajectories. Economists and political scientists
have argued that incentives provided by institutions matter for
good or bad public administration, and this is undeniable in the
prisons of this study. But institutional incentives were one factor
among many affecting the form and function of the prisons and
prison systems of this study.
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