The Culture of Urban Control: Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Era

by John P. Walsh

Book Overview

Through an analysis of a federal consent decree and media representation related to overcrowding within the largest single-site jail facility in the United States, the incarceration binge of the 1990's is explored at the local level in The Culture of Urban Control: Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Era. Analysis of jail conditions, expansion, the inmate experience and changing correctional populations provide a narrative of the culture of control...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739174649
• ISBN13: 9780739174647
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"