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Criminal Values? Race, Class, & “Capitalist” Punishment Controversies of Cost-Cutting, Privatization, and the Prison System
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Exploding Incarceration Rates Meant an Overcrowding Crisis Behind Bars U.S. prison population has more than quadrupled since 1980
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Response #1: Punishment on the Cheap
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Response #2: The Birth of a Prison Industrial Complex Multibillion dollar business: 1.Prison construction 2.Food services 3.Clothing manufacturers 4.Health Services 5.“Security-Ware”
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Controversies Efficiency Argument Efficiency Argument How do private prisons compare with their public-sector counterparts? How do private prisons compare with their public-sector counterparts? Legitimacy Argument Legitimacy Argument To what extent is the use of for-profit private prisons consistent with society's obligations to those it incarcerates? To what extent is the use of for-profit private prisons consistent with society's obligations to those it incarcerates?
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Criminologists Are Most Concerned With Legitimacy Break down in accountability Break down in accountability Human Conditions of Confinement Human Conditions of Confinement Beyond Public-Private Beyond Public-Private
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