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Author Lynch, Mona Pauline.

Title Sunbelt justice : Arizona and the transformation of American punishment / Mona Lynch
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrations
Series Critical perspectives on crime and law
Critical perspectives on crime and law.
Contents Introduction : from the reformative project to the warehousing solution -- Arizona's political and penal roots -- The dawn of progress and the making of a new bureaucracy -- An institution in search of meaning -- The new-old penal regime -- The postrehabilitative prototype is realized -- Taking back the prisons -- Making meaning of the Arizona case -- Epilogue : the parallel universe
Summary The story of the dramatic spread of mass incarceration across the United States, through a close look at the development of Arizona's punishment politics, policies, and practices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index
Notes English
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Subject Imprisonment -- Arizona -- History
Punishment -- Arizona -- History
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Arizona -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Imprisonment
Punishment
Arizona
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009011175
ISBN 9780804772471
0804772479