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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"."--BOOK JACKET.
"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.""--BOOK JACKET. "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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Administration of Criminal justice, Fear of crime, Privatisierung, Kriminalität, Imprisonment, Kriminalitätsfurcht, Crime, Economische aspecten, Contracting out, Corrections, Privatisering, Gefängnis, Gevangeniswezen, Etablissements pénitentiaires, Criminalité, Procédure pénale, Aspects économiques, Prisonniers, Economic aspects, Criminal justice, administration of, Crime, economic aspects, Crime, united statesPlaces
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The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime
January 2001, Westview Press
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Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime
2000, Avalon Publishing
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The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime
October 1999, Westview Pr (Trd), Westview Press
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0813335078 9780813335070
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"As you drive through the streets of Youngstown, Ohio, it's not hard to find the usual reminders that we live in a market-driven culture."
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