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

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Superior document:Studies in crime and public policy
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TeilnehmendeR:
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Studies in crime and public policy.
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Physical Description:ix, 252 p. :; ill.
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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.