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The politics of imprisonment : how the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders
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The politics of imprisonment : how the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders / Vanessa Barker.
ISBN
9780195370027 (cloth : alk. paper)
0195370023 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
ix, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 02, 2009
Series
Studies in crime and public policy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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