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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gottschalk, Marie
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; Cambridge : 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 > Civil rights > United States. United States > Politics and government.
Online Access:	Table of contents only Publisher description Contributor biographical information Book review (H-Net)

Table of 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
Conclusion : Whither the carceral state?