The Prison Index: Taking the Pulse of the Crime Control Industry
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About the publishers and author
Overview: Trends in the Crime Control Industry: Incarceration; Death Penalty; Private Prisons; The Crime Control Industry & the Economy
Section I: Crime & Punishment in the U.S. Crime & Public Perception
- Public perception and the crime rate
- Police
- Police and public confidence
- Crime: Victims of Crime: Who is at greatest risk?
- Murder: When the murder rate goes up; When the murder rate goes down a little; And when the murder rate goes down a lot; Murder and the death penalty
- Drugs
- Safety
- The Roots of Crime? Guns; Drug and alcohol addiction; Education; Do prisons cause more crime?
- Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System
- Death Penalty: Death row demographics; Innocence and the death penalty; Dollars and death
Section II: Incarceration & Its Consequences
- Penal Control in the U.S. Incarceration in the U.S.; Federal prisons
- Variation of Incarceration Rates in the States: Incarceration in New York; Incarceration in Texas; What do we think prisons do?
- America's Prisoners: Who is in prison?; What crimes did they commit?; Who gets sent to prison?; Race
- Behind the Walls: Let them eat...; Prisoner health; Older prisoners; Education programs in prison
- Families of Prisoners: A recidivism study on the impact of visits
- Disenfranchisement: Changing elections; Election 2000
Section III: The Prison Economy
- Crime Control & the Economy
- Budget Priorities: Education vs. Incarceration
- The Prison Industry: Captive consumers; Employment; Construction; Where are prisons built?; California's prison economy
- Private Prisons: Safety first?
- Prison Labor: Prison labor in the federal prisons; Prison labor in the states
- Prisoners & the Census
Section IV: Global Comparisons Crime and incarceration around the world