Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
- ISBN-10
- 0520242017
- ISBN-13
- 9780520242012
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 388
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Description
Evaluates the economic and political forces--from global to local--that have contributed to the buildup of inmates in the California correctional system, revealing why this state has led the way in a prison boom despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades. Simultaneous.
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