Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment by Aviram, Hadar

Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520277311)

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Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment by Aviram, Hadar

Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment

$29.95
Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment by Aviram, Hadar

Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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After forty years of increasing prison construction and incarceration rates, winds of change are blowing through the American correctional system. The 2008 financial crisis demonstrated the unsustainability of the incarceration project, thereby empowering policy makers to reform punishment through fiscal prudence and austerity. In Cheap on Crime, Hadar Aviram draws on years of archival and journalistic research and builds on social history and economics literature to show the powerful impact of recession-era discourse on the death penalty, the war on drugs, incarceration practices, prison health care, and other aspects of the American correctional landscape.

Author: Hadar Aviram
ISBN-10: 0520277317
ISBN-13: 9780520277311
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2015
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 11.10h x 2.90w x 0.60d

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Choice 11/01/2015
By Hadar Aviram
By Hadar Aviram
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Hadar Aviram is Professor of Law at University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she codirects the Hastings Institute for Criminal Justice and publishes the California Correctional Crisis blog.

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