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