Golden Gulag

Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

Szerző: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of California Press

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Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate...

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Szerző

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2007

oldal

412

EAN

9780520242012

ISBN

0520242017

Enbook ID

04617198

Kiadó

University of California Press

Súly

458

Méretek

141 x 211 x 25

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Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called 'the biggest prison building project in the history of the world'. "Golden Gulag" provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Detailing crises that hit California's economy with particular ferocity, she argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth. The results - a vast and expensive prison system, a huge number of incarcerated young people of color, and the increase in punitive justice such as the 'three strikes' law - pose profound and troubling questions for the future of California, the United States, and the world. "Golden Gulag" provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state's commitment to prison expansion.

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