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The perpetual prisoner machine : how America profits from crime

Author: Joel Dyer
Publisher: Boulder, Colo : Westview Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In The Perpetual Prisoner Machine, author Joel Dyer takes a critical look at the United States' criminal justice system as we enter the new millennium. America has more than tripled its prison population since 1980 even though crime rates have been either flat or declining. If crime rates aren't going up, why is the prison population? The Perpetual Prisoner Machine provides the answer to this question, and  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Dyer, Joel.
Perpetual prisoner machine.
Boulder, Colo : Westview Press, 2000
(OCoLC)607372958
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joel Dyer
ISBN: 0813335078 9780813335070 0813338700 9780813338705
OCLC Number: 42393517
Description: x, 318 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: A New Commodity --
The Crime Gap --
Violence for Profit --
Manufacturing Fear --
The Politics of Public Opinion --
The Weapons of War --
Collateral Damage --
Same Old Logic, Same Old Problems --
The Hidden Costs of Private Prisons --
Sidestepping the Restraints of Democracy --
Pulling the Plug.
Responsibility: by Joel Dyer.
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"In The Perpetual Prisoner Machine, author Joel Dyer takes a critical look at the United States' criminal justice system as we enter the new millennium. America has more than tripled its prison population since 1980 even though crime rates have been either flat or declining. If crime rates aren't going up, why is the prison population? The Perpetual Prisoner Machine provides the answer to this question, and shockingly, it has little to do with crime or justice. The answer is "profit"." "The Perpetual Prisoner Machine explains how the new prison-industrial complex has capitalized upon the public's fear of crime - which has its origins in violent media content - to help bring about the "hard on crime" policies that have led to our prison-filling, and therefore profitable "war on crime."" "Dyer concludes that powerful, market driven forces have manipulated America into fighting a very real war against an imaginary foe."--BOOK JACKET.

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