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The Culture of Urban Control - Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Era (Hardcover)
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The Culture of Urban Control - Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Era (Hardcover)
Series: Issues in Crime and Justice
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The Culture of Urban Control: Jail Overcrowding in the Crime
Control Era explores and analyzes the growth and expansion of the
United States' largest single-site urban jail system. Through an
analysis of a United States Federal Court initiated consent decree
this research provides a narrative of criminal justice policy,
politics and legal maneuvering between the years of 1993 and 2003
associated with overcrowding within the Cook County Jail. As a
result of increased policing presence and subsequent arrests during
the crime control era of the 1990's, the Cook County Department of
Corrections experienced a continually overcrowded correctional
facility resulting in pre-trial and post-convicted inmates sleeping
on floors in overcrowded and dilapidated facilities. Beginning in
the early 1990's and under the supervision of the federal court,
Chicago and Cook County, Illinois undertook the largest expansion
of local level incarceration and correctional control in their
history. The disputing process between local, state and federal
level claims-makers within the legal arena and through media
representations are analyzed in conjunction with infrastructure
growth, changing correctional populations, community level
expansion of correctional programming and the social reality of the
inmate experience. How local level corrections and federal
interdiction were shaped by local level politics and criminal
justice systems are examined.
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