AUTHOR EVENT - MONA LYNCH: SUNBELT JUSTICE

MONA LYNCH: SUNBELT JUSTICE      7PM

Mona Lynch, Associate Professor in the Criminology, Law & Society Department at the University of California, Irvine, visits with her book Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment. In the late twentieth century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than 1.5 million people are held in state and federal prisons. Arizona’s Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift toward prison warehousing began, and soon led the pack in using punitive incarceration in response to crime. Sunbelt Justice looks at the development of Arizona’s punishment politics, policies, and practices, and brings to light just how and why we have become a mass incarceration nation.

Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment (Paperback)

By Mona Lynch

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780804762854
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Stanford Law Books, 09/01/2009

In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 million people are held in state and federal prisons. Arizona's Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift toward prison warehousing began, and soon led the pack in using punitive incarceration in response to crime. Sunbelt Justice looks at the development of Arizona's punishment politics, policies, and practices, and brings to light just how and why we have become a mass incarceration nation.

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