Prison Privatization: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry [3 volumes]
This book examines the current state of both the theory and practice of prison privatization in the United States in the 21st century, providing a balanced compendium of research that allows readers to draw their own conclusions about this controversial subject.

This three-volume set brings together noted scholars and experts in the field to provide a comprehensive treatment of the subject of privatized prisons in the United States. It is a definitive work on the topic that synthesizes current thought on both the theory and practice of prison privatization.

Volume I provides a broad-brush overview of private prisons that discusses the history of prison privatization and examines the expansion of the private prison industry and the growth of inmate populations in the United States. Volume II focuses on the corrections industry itself, providing essays that explore the business models, profit motivations, economic factors, and operations of the corporations that offer corrections services, while Volume III explores the political and social environment of prison privatization. Academics, practitioners, policy makers, and advocates for and against private prisons will find this work useful and enlightening, while general readers can use the unbiased information to draw their own conclusions in respect to the merits of prison privatization.
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Prison Privatization: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry [3 volumes]
This book examines the current state of both the theory and practice of prison privatization in the United States in the 21st century, providing a balanced compendium of research that allows readers to draw their own conclusions about this controversial subject.

This three-volume set brings together noted scholars and experts in the field to provide a comprehensive treatment of the subject of privatized prisons in the United States. It is a definitive work on the topic that synthesizes current thought on both the theory and practice of prison privatization.

Volume I provides a broad-brush overview of private prisons that discusses the history of prison privatization and examines the expansion of the private prison industry and the growth of inmate populations in the United States. Volume II focuses on the corrections industry itself, providing essays that explore the business models, profit motivations, economic factors, and operations of the corporations that offer corrections services, while Volume III explores the political and social environment of prison privatization. Academics, practitioners, policy makers, and advocates for and against private prisons will find this work useful and enlightening, while general readers can use the unbiased information to draw their own conclusions in respect to the merits of prison privatization.
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Prison Privatization: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry [3 volumes]

Prison Privatization: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry [3 volumes]

Prison Privatization: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry [3 volumes]

Prison Privatization: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry [3 volumes]

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Overview

This book examines the current state of both the theory and practice of prison privatization in the United States in the 21st century, providing a balanced compendium of research that allows readers to draw their own conclusions about this controversial subject.

This three-volume set brings together noted scholars and experts in the field to provide a comprehensive treatment of the subject of privatized prisons in the United States. It is a definitive work on the topic that synthesizes current thought on both the theory and practice of prison privatization.

Volume I provides a broad-brush overview of private prisons that discusses the history of prison privatization and examines the expansion of the private prison industry and the growth of inmate populations in the United States. Volume II focuses on the corrections industry itself, providing essays that explore the business models, profit motivations, economic factors, and operations of the corporations that offer corrections services, while Volume III explores the political and social environment of prison privatization. Academics, practitioners, policy makers, and advocates for and against private prisons will find this work useful and enlightening, while general readers can use the unbiased information to draw their own conclusions in respect to the merits of prison privatization.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798216132455
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 09/20/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 864
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 7 - 17 Years

About the Author

Byron Eugene Price is the dean of the school of business at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, in Brooklyn, NY.

John Charles Morris is professor of public policy and serves as the PhD Graduate Program Director in the Department of Urban Studies and Public Administration, and Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.
Byron Eugene Price is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the Associate Director of the National Center for Public Productivity, Rutgers University, Newark, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, and Case Study Editor, Public Productivity and Management Review. Dr. Price has co-authored two book chapters on Mississippi politics, co-authored one book chapter on privatization, and contributed three entries to the Malcolm X Encyclopedia. He has published in the American Review of Public Administration, the International Review of Public Administration, Public Productivity and Management Review, and the PA Times.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments,
Introduction: The Political Climate of Prison Privatization
Byron E. Price and John C. Morris
Chapter 1
The Effect of Privatization on Public and Private Prison Lobbies
Alexander Volokh
Chapter 2
The High Cost of Profit: Racism, Classism, and Interests against Prison Privatization
Nancy A. Heitzeg
Chapter 3
Privatized Prisons and Indemnification: A Revisit to Richardson v. McKnight
Trina M. Gordon and Anitra D. Shelton-Quinn
Chapter 4
Private Prisons and Qualified Immunity
H. Jessica Hargis
Chapter 5
The Prison Doors Swing Both Ways: Elite Deviance and the Maintenance and Expansion of the Market of Prison-Industrial Complex
Benjamin R. Inman
Chapter 6
Private Prisons as a Response to the "Second Ghetto,"
Brandi Blessett
Chapter 7
Grassroots Efforts against Private Prisons
Carol F. Black
Chapter 8
Constitutional Implications of Private Prisons
H. Jessica Hargis
Chapter 9
A Comparative Analysis of Educational Realities in State and Private Prisons
Gwen Lee-Thomas and Rhonda L. Myers
Chapter 10
Performance Measures and Private Prisons
Michael Montgomery
Chapter 11
Private Prisons and Contracts
Amy M. McDowell and John C. Morris
Chapter 12
Projecting the Future of Private Prisons
Byron E. Price
Conclusion
John C. Morris and Byron E. Price
About the Contributors,
Index,
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