Cheap on crime recession-era politics and the transformation of American punishment

• Main Author: Aviram, Hadar
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2015
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: 21st century american history; american correctional system; american politics; american prison system; american studies; austerity; Corrections; Corrections > Economic aspects > United States; Criminology; cultural studies; death penalty; Economic aspects; economics literature; financial crisis; government and governing; great recession; imprisonment; incarceration practices; incarceration rates; legislation; mass incarceration; political debate; politicians; prison; prison construction; prison health care; Prisons; Prisons > Economic aspects > United States; recession era discourse; social history; SOCIAL SCIENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Sociology; United States; united states of america; war on drugs; government and governing; american politics; imprisonment; incarceration rates; prison construction; mass incarceration; prison health care; united states of america; war on drugs; austerity; 21st century american history; prison; american studies; legislation; american correctional system; death penalty; social history; financial crisis; politicians; recession era discourse; cultural studies; incarceration practices; american prison system; great recession; political debate; economics literature
• ISBN: 0520960327; 9780520277311; 9780520960329; 0520277317; 0520277309; 9780520277304
• DOI: 10.1525/9780520960329

After forty years of increasing prison construction and incarceration rates, winds of change are blowing through the American correctional system. The 2008 financial crisis demonstrated the unsustainability of the incarceration project, thereby empowering policy makers to reform punishment through fiscal prudence and austerity. In Cheap on Crime, Hadar Aviram draws on years of archival and journalistic research and builds on social history and economics literature to show the powerful impact of recession-era discourse on the death penalty, the war on drugs, incarceration practices, prison health care, and other aspects of the American correctional landscape.