The prison and the gallows : the politics of mass incarceration in America / Marie Gottschalk.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cambridge studies in criminology (Cambridge University Press)
Main Author: Gottschalk, Marie
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Series:Cambridge studies in criminology (Cambridge University Press)
Subjects:
Prisons > United States.
Imprisonment > Government policy > United States.
Capital punishment > United States.
Prisoners > United States > Civil rights.
United States > Politics and government.
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Physical Description:xiii, 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The prison and the gallows : the construction of the carceral state in America
  • Law, order, and alternative explanations
  • Unlocking the past : the nationalization and politicization of law and order
  • The carceral state and the welfare state : the comparative politics of victims
  • Not the usual suspects : feminists, women's groups, and the anti-rape movement
  • The battered women's movement and the development of penal policy
  • From rights to revolution : prison activism and the carceral state
  • Capital punishment, the courts, and the early origins of the carceral state, 1920s-1960s
  • The power to punish and execute : the political development of capital punishment, 1972 to today
  • Whither the carceral state?.