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After forty years of increasing prison construction and incarceration rates, winds of change are blowing through the American correctional system. The financial crisis of 2008, and the resulting unsustainability of the incarceration project, empowered policymakers to reform punishment from a perspective of fiscal prudence and austerity. Relying on years of archival and journalistic research, and building on social history and economics literature, Cheap on Crime shows the impact of recession-era discourse on the death penalty, the war on drugs, incarceration practices, prison health care, and other aspects of the American correctional landscape.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Cheap on Crime
• Subtitle: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment
• Author: Hadar Aviram
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780520277311
• ISBN: 0520277317
• ID: 04618207
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 382 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. February 2015

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