American Prisons: Their Past, Present and Future

by Kristine Gunsaulus-Musick and David Musick

Book Overview

Imprisonment has become big business in the United States. Using a "history of ideas" approach, this book examines the cultural underpinnings of prisons in the United States and explores how shared ideas about imprisonment evolve into a complex, loosely connected nationwide system of prisons that keeps enough persons to populate a small nation behind bars, razor wire and electrified fences.

Tracing both the history of the prison and the very...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138805785
• ISBN13: 9781138805781
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages