21st century american history
A01=Hadar Aviram
american correctional system
american politics
american prison system
american studies
austerity
Author_Hadar Aviram
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cultural studies
death penalty
economics literature
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financial crisis
government and governing
great recession
imprisonment
incarceration practices
incarceration rates
legislation
mass incarceration
political debate
politicians
prison
prison construction
prison health care
recession era discourse
social history
united states of america
war on drugs
Product details
- ISBN 9780520277311
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 2015
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Hadar Aviram is Professor of Law at University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she codirects the Hastings Institute for Criminal Justice and publishes the California Correctional Crisis blog. She lives in San Francisco.
