From Gulag to Guantanamo

Political, Social and Economic Evolutions of Mass Incarceration

AvWesley Kendall

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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This book offers the reader an incisive view into the political, social and economic evolutions of mass incarceration across the globe. It examines the different political and social contexts that combine with free market mechanisms of mass incarceration to ascertain how economic incentives shape penal policy.Using qualitative analysis of a wide variety of incarceration forms, each chapter compares a US example with a non-US case study, showing how first world countries that occupy the economic forefront of prison privatization are exporting new models of penal institutionalization to developing countries. The chapters examine issues such as the privatization of asylum detention centres, the economic impacts of maintaining vast forced labour camps, the social consequences of imprisoning journalists, and the use of state sanctioned torture. Capturing a nascent international trend through an interdisciplinary lens, this book questions why so many languish in prison, whether the incarceration of thousands benefits society as a whole, and how these penal policies might be roundly reconsidered.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-12-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:486 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:202
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781783484690

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Wesley Kendall is a Law Lecturer at the University of the South Pacific. He is author of The U.S. Death Penalty and Diplomacy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013) and Language of Terror (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015).

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This book explores how and why the majority of Americans has accepted uncritically the need for policies of mass incarceration and how corporate interests have cultivated the fear harnessing it to the engine of entrepreneurial exploitation to generate immense profits. . . .Kendall offers the reader an insightful view into the political, social, and economic evolutions of mass incarceration across the globe. But most important, Kendall calls attention to an important issue—privatized prisons and whether society should continue placing inmates in them.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface / 1. Introduction / 2. A Primer on the Evolution of the Penitentiary / 3. The Institution of American Slavery and the Evolution of Modern Mass Incarceration: A Critical Assessment of Forced Labor in America and China / 4. Reaping Refugees: Privatized Immigration Detention Centers in America and Australia / 5. Condemned Kids: The Incarceration of Children for Profit in America and the United Kingdom / 6. From Gulag to Guantanamo: State Sanctioned Torture and The Global Convergence of Corporate States; An American-Russian Case Study / Selected Bibliography / Index