The politics of imprisonment how the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barker, Vanessa
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Studies in crime and public policy.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.