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The politics of imprisonment : how the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders / Vanessa Barker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barker, Vanessa.
- Series:
- Studies in crime and public policy.
- Studies in crime and public policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States--States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Criminals--United States--States.
- Criminals.
- Imprisonment--United States--States.
- Imprisonment.
- Equality--United States.
- Equality.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States--States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The attention devoted to the unprecedented levels of imprisonment in the United States obscure an obvious but understudied aspect of criminal justice: there is no consistent punishment policy across the U.S. It is up to individual states to administer their criminal justice systems, and the differences among them are vast. For example, while some states enforce mandatory minimum sentencing, some even implementing harsh and degrading practices, others rely on community sanctions. What accounts for these differences? The Politics of Imprisonment seeks to document and explain variation in America
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988807-8
- 1-282-27064-8
- 9786612270642
- 0-19-970846-0
- OCLC:
- 435942134
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