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This major new volume of papers by leading criminologists, sociologists and historians, sets out what is known about the political and penological causes of the phenomenon of mass imprisonment. Mass imprisonment, American-style, involves the penal segregation of large numbers of the poor and minorities. Imprisonment has become a central institution for the social control of the urban poor. Other countries are now looking to the USA to see what should be learned from this massive and controversial social experiment. This book describes mass imprisonment's impact upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture. This is a book that all penologists and poli
The macho Penal Economy: Mass Incarceration in the United States – a European Perspective
The macho Penal Economy: Mass Incarceration in the United States – a European Perspective
Introduction
American exceptionalism in deviance and control, for most of the 20th century, consisted of exceptionally high rates of serious crime, notably homicide, robbery, hard drug dealing and gang violence in both its juvenile and organized crime forms. Theorizing about crime, especially in the anomie tradition, has been massively influenced by this major contrast with the general run of European experience. So there has been a certain experience of cognitive dissonance as, over the past two decades, crime rates in the USA have levelled off and recently fallen, whilst those in some European countries have risen, in the case ...
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