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The politics of imprisonment : how the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barker, Vanessa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Studies in crime and public policy.
Subjects:
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States > States.
Criminals > United States > States.
Imprisonment > United States > States.
Equality > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States > States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > U.S. states.
Criminals > U.S. states.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > U.S. states.
Equality.
Imprisonment > U.S. states.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Imprisonment and the democratic process
  • Explaining penal regime variation : political structures and collective agency
  • The case of California : neopopulism and retribution
  • Washington State deliberates : from fortress prison to de-escalation
  • New York : elite pragmatism and managerialism
  • Democratic governance, social trust, and penal order.