Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge

by Donna Selman and Paul Leighton

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Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons and the resistance they engendered within the context of criminology, and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1442201738

ISBN13:9781442201736

Release Date:January 2010

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"

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