Big Prisons, Big Dreams : : Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System / / Michael Lynch.
The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased. This doesn't surprise Michael J. Lynch, a critical criminologist, who argues that our oversized prison system is a product of our consumer culture, the public's inaccurate...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Big, Dark Secrets and America's Prison System
- Chapter 2. Prisons and Crime
- Chapter 3. The Growth of America's Prison System
- Chapter 4. Raising Questions About America's Big Prison System
- Chapter 5. Explaining Prison Growth in the United States: The Materialist Perspective
- Chapter 6. Prison Effects: Who Gets Locked Up
- Chapter 7. The Imprisonment Binge and Crime
- Chapter 8. The End of Oil and the Future of American Prisons?
- Chapter 9. A Consuming Culture
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author