From Gulag to Guantanamo - Political, Social and Economic Evolutions of Mass Incarceration (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2015
Authors:	Wesley Kendall
Dimensions:	229 x 154 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	202
ISBN-13:	978-1-78348-470-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > Prisons
LSN:	1-78348-470-5
Barcode:	9781783484706

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