Description
Product ID: | 9780520242012 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | American Crossroads |
Title: | Golden Gulag |
Subtitle: | Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California |
Authors: | Author: Ruth Wilson Gilmore |
Page Count: | 412 |
Subjects: | Penology and punishment, Prisons, California |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Provides an explanation for the increase in number of people in US prisons by more than 450%. This book examines the issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. |
Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2007-01-08 |