Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment by Hadar Aviram

Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment

Hadar Aviram

272 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

challenging informative medium-paced
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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 em...

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