Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Area Manpower Review
Author: 1980 Census of Population and Housing
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Category : Bakersfield Metropolitan Area (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Dictionary Catalog of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Library, University of California, Berkeley
Author: Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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California Statistical Abstract
Author: California and Man
Author: David N. HartmanPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Managing California's Water
Author: Ellen HanakPublisher: Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN: 1582131414
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Golden Gulag
Author: Ruth Wilson GilmorePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520938038
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Detailing crises that hit California’s economy with particular ferocity, she argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth. The results—a vast and expensive prison system, a huge number of incarcerated young people of color, and the increase in punitive justice such as the "three strikes" law—pose profound and troubling questions for the future of California, the United States, and the world. Golden Gulag provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state’s commitment to prison expansion.
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