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Author Aviram, Hadar, author.

Title Cheap on Crime : Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment / Hadar Aviram.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 342 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Talking about Money and Punishment; 2. A Fiscal History of Mass Incarceration; 3. The Financial Crisis of 2007 and the Birth of Humonetarianism; 4. The New Correctional Discourse of Scarcity: From Ideals to Money on Death Row; 5. The New Coalitions of Financial Prudence: From Tough on Crime to the Drug Truce; 6. The New Carceral Wheeling and Dealing: From Incapacitation to the Inmate Export Business; 7. The New Inmate as a Fiscal Subject: From Ward to Consumer; 8. The Future of Humonetarianism; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D.
Ef; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; q; r; s; t; u; v; w; x; y; z.
Summary After forty years of increasing prison construction and incarceration rates, winds of change are blowing through the American correctional system. The 2008 financial crisis demonstrated the unsustainability of the incarceration project, thereby empowering policy makers to reform punishment through fiscal prudence and austerity. In Cheap on Crime, Hadar Aviram draws on years of archival and journalistic research and builds on social history and economics literature to show the powerful impact of recession-era discourse on the death penalty, the war on drugs, incarceration practices, prison heal.
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Subject Corrections -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Corrections -- Economic aspects.
United States.
Corrections.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Prisons -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Prisons -- Economic aspects.
Prisons.
Punishment -- United States.
Punishment.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Aviram, Hadar, Prof. Cheap on Crime : Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2015 9780520277304
ISBN 9780520960329 (electronic book)
0520960327 (electronic book)
9780520277304 (cloth)
0520277309 (cloth)
9780520277311 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520277317 (paperback. ; alkaline paper)