Punishment for Sale
Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge
By (author) Donna Selman, Paul Leighton
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Publication date:
16 January 2010Length of book:
216 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781442201743
Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons and the resistance they engendered within the context of criminology, and it is intended for supplemental use in undergraduate and graduate courses in criminology, social problems, and race & ethnicity.
With a reputation for pursuing social justice, Selman and Leighton expose the realities and consequences of privatized prisons. Punishment for Sale deserves to become standard reading for professors, students, and activists concerned about the expanding neoliberal campaign to outsource criminal justice