Cashing in on Crime : The Drive to Privatize California State Prisons.

Intro -- Title page -- copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ch1-The Emergence of Private Prisons -- Public Versus Private? -- The Start of Privatization -- Privatization Stalls in California -- Theoretical Approaches -- ch2-Transformations of the Prison Landscape -- Penal Welfarism: The Progressive Era of Criminal Justice -- Penal Welfarist Policies -- Ideology and Penal Welfarism -- Social Science Research and the Criminal Justice Practicioner -- The Attack on Penal Welfarism -- The Limitations of the Welfare State -- Political Realignments -- Gubernatorial Politics in California and the Impact of Ronald Reagan -- New Criminal Justice Realities in a Law and Order Era -- ch3-Economic Issues -- California Economy: The Early Twentieth Century -- Economic Downturn: The Late Twentieth Century to the Present -- Economic Crises in California -- The Special Case of Demographics within California -- Making Sense of a New Economy and Criminal Justice Realities -- The California State Budget and Correctional Institutions -- The Logic of Private Prisons in California -- ch4-The Political-Legislative Sphere -- California's New Penology -- The Rise of Penal Populism -- Victims' Rights: A New Morality? -- ch5-Taking Account of Ideologies -- The Culture of Fear Defined -- The Culture of Fear in California -- The Irony of Fearfulness in California -- Mass Media and the Culture of Fear -- Government and the Culture of Fear -- Effects of the Culture of Fear Upon Criminal Justice -- The Mystification of the "Free" Market -- Ideological Images of the Offender -- Criminality Is a Function of Nature (Not Nurture) -- California Prisons: Where Are the Superpredators? -- The (Re)Construction of Deviance Through Crime Control -- ch6-Why Privatization Failed -- Making Sense of the "Failed" Private Prison Boom in California.

The CCPOA: There's Power in Prisons -- The CCPOA: Picking Candidates and Attacking Foes -- The Battles Over the CCFs -- The CCPOA Meets "the Governator" -- Private Prisons: To Be Continued? -- ch7-The Mythology of Privatization -- Mythology Interpreted -- Imprisonment Is Our Best Option -- Market Capitalism Will Solve State Problems -- Public Provision Is Not Private Provision (With One Exception) -- Safety at Any Cost -- The Logic of Privatization -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book.

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