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100 1 $aKendall, Wesley,$d1972-$eauthor.
245 10 $aFrom Gulag to Guantanamo :$bpolitical, social and economic evolutions of mass incarceration /$cWesley Kendall.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRowman & Littlefield International,$c[2016]
300 $aix,191 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index.
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: 1.A Primer on the Evolution of the Penitentiary -- 2.The Institution of American Slavery and the Evolution of Modern Mass Incarceration: A Critical Assessment of Forced Labour in America and China -- 3.Reaping Refugees: Privatized Immigration Detention Centres -- 4.Condemned Kids: The Incarceration of Children for Profit -- 5.From Gulag to Guantanamo: State-Sanctioned Torture and the Global Convergence of Corporate States.
520 $a"From Gulag to Guantanamo offers the reader an incisive view into the political, social and economic evolutions of mass incarceration across the globe. It examines the different political and social contexts that combine with free market mechanisms of mass incarceration to ascertain how economic incentives shape penal policy. Analyzing a wide variety of incarceration forms, each chapter compares a U.S. example with a non-U.S. case study, showing how countries that occupy the economic forefront of prison privatization are exporting new models of penal institutionalization. The chapters examine issues such as the privatization of asylum detention centres, the economic impacts of maintaining vast forced labour camps, the incarceration of children for profit and the use of state-sanctioned torture. Capturing a nascent international trend through an interdisciplinary lens, this book questions why so many languish in prison, whether the incarceration of thousands benefits society as a whole and how penal policies might be roundly reconsidered."--Page [4] of cover.
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650 0 $aDetention of persons$xHistory.
650 0 $aPolitical prisoners$xHistory.
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