Bibliograph

Sunbelt justice, Arizona and the transformation of American punishment, Mona Lynch

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Label

Sunbelt justice, Arizona and the transformation of American punishment, Mona Lynch

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sunbelt justice

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Mona Lynch

Series statement

Critical perspectives on crime and law

Sub title

Arizona and the transformation of American punishment

Summary

In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 million people are held in state and federal prisons. Arizona's Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift toward prison warehousing began, and soon led the pack in using punitive incarceration in response to crime. Sunbelt Justice looks at the development of Arizona's punishment politics, policies, and practices, and brings to light just how and why we have become a mass incarceration nation

Target audience

adult

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