Cheap on crime : recession-era politics and the transformation of American punishment / Hadar Aviram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aviram, Hadar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corrections--Economic aspects--United States.

Corrections.

Prisons--Economic aspects--United States.

Prisons.

Corrections--Economic aspects.

Prisons--Economic aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 252 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Talking about money and punishment

A fiscal history of mass incarceration

The Financial Crisis of 2007 and the birth of humonetarianism

The new correctional discourse of scarcity : from ideals to money on death row

The new coalition of financial prudence : from tough on crime to the drug truce

The new carceral wheeling and dealing : from incapacitation to the inmate export business

The new inmate as fiscal subject : from ward to consumer

The future of humonetarianism.

Notes:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520277304

0520277309

9780520277311

0520277317

OCLC:

881810549