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Private prisons in America : a critical race perspective /

Hallett, Michael A.

Private prisons in America : a critical race perspective / Michael A. Hallett. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006. - xv, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Critical perspectives in criminology .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-180) and index.

Race, crime, and for-profit imprisonment -- For-profit imprisonment in American history -- Capitalist crime control : social disorganization as market opportunity -- Money and power : the political economy of prision privatization -- Bad faith : a critical look at "faith-based corrections" -- The easy inmate market : the micro-politics of private prisons -- Commerce with criminals : the new colonialism in criminal justice.

0252030699 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780252030697 (cloth : alk. paper) 0252073088 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780252073083 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2005017072


Corrections--Contracting out--United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.

HV9469 / .H256 2006

365/.973

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