Over the last three decades the United States has built a carceral
state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US
history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding children and the
elderly, is incarcerated today, a rate unsurpassed anywhere else in
the world. What are some of the main political forces that explain
this unprecedented reliance on mass imprisonment? Throughout
American history, crime and punishment have been central features
of American political development. This book examines the
development of four key movements that mediated the construction of
the carceral state in important ways: the victims' movement, the
women's movement, the prisoners' rights movement, and opponents of
the death penalty. This book argues that punitive penal policies
were forged by particular social movements and interest groups
within the constraints of larger institutional structures and
historical developments that distinguish the United States from
other Western countries.
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