The politics of imprisonment how the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders / [electronic resource] :
Vanessa Barker.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- ix, 252 p. : ill.
- Studies in crime and public policy .
- Studies in crime and public policy. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Imprisonment and the democratic process -- Explaining penal regime variation : political structures and collective agency -- The case of California : neopopulism and retribution -- Washington State deliberates : from fortress prison to de-escalation -- New York : elite pragmatism and managerialism -- Democratic governance, social trust, and penal order.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Criminal justice, Administration of--States.--United States Criminals--States.--United States Imprisonment--States.--United States Equality--United States. Discrimination in criminal justice administration--States.--United States