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Sunbelt Justice

Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment

Mona LynchSeries: Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law
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Pages
280
Year
2009
Language
English
Publisher
Stanford University Press

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In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 million people are held in state and federal prisons. Arizona's Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift toward prison warehousing began, and soon led the pack in using punitive incarceration in response to crime. Sunbelt Justice looks at the development of Arizona's punishment politics, policies, and practices, and brings to light just how and why we have become a mass incarceration nation.

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  • General
  • Criminal Law
  • Law
  • Adult Nonfiction

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  • SeriesCritical Perspectives on Crime and Law

    Reviews

    "How did Arizona-a low tax, low incarceration state in Barry Goldwater's heyday-become one of the nation's leading carceral states in the age of mass imprisonment? Mona Lynch provides a compelling and illuminating answer. By showing that rehabilitative ideas came late to Arizona, never fully displacing the state's low-cost, no frills punitive traditions; by connecting institutional actors and even
    New York University
    "Mona Lynch's insightful analysis of Arizona's war on crime sheds new and important light on penal politics and trajectories. Sunbelt Justice is a must-read for those seeking to understand how the United States became home to the largest prison system and prisoner population the world has ever known, as well as how local circumstances shaped the way this process unfolded in Arizona."
    University of Washington
    "Sunbelt Justice is a path-breaking analysis of the origins and development of mass imprisonment in Arizona. Lynch unravels an important and timely puzzle: why did a state known for its fiscal conservatism and deep mistrust of big government build a vast and expensive penal system? This insightful book also explains why Arizona became a national trend-setter in delivering harsh punishment as the r
    University of Pennsylvania, author of The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Inc

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