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Title: The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime by Joel Dyer ISBN: 0-8133-3870-0 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: For students of the American criminal justice system
Comment: Journalist Joel Dyer creates an informative, critical, and iconoclastic survey of the United States' criminal justice system in The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits From Crime. Dyer persuasively argues that contemporary criminal "justice" is disastrously impacted by violent media content, a push for privatization; an increasing dependence of politicians upon public opinion polling and campaign finance. This has all resulted in an explosion in the American prison population. The rapidly increasing numbers of prisoners, parolees and probationers is not the result of increasing crime rates, but because sectors of the American economy and political power structure find mass incarcerations to be profitable. The Perpetual Prisoner Machine is very strongly recommended reading for students of the American criminal justice system, prisoner reform movement supporters, sociologists, cultural anthropologists, and political science students.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent and insightful book
Comment: Dyer is rather a leftist, and I'm more of a libertarian, but on this subject we see eye to eye. The politicians, corrections industry, and opinion pollsters have formed an "Iron Triangle" in support of ever more incarceration. In particular, large numbers of nonviolent offenders are being locked up for no good reason at all. (The resulting clog tends to make it harder to put away those who really belong behind bars, too.) The really bad consequences of this (millions of people with grudges against society, learning a lot about violence) have yet to really be visited upon our society. But they probably will be, and it won't be the politicians and lobbyists who pay the price.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent presentation of an unpopular opinion
Comment: The sad tragedy of this book's thesis is this: Any politician who brings up the senselessness of our current criminal justice system commits political suicide. The book exposes a big secret: violent crime is down, but media coverage of violence that is up! We've doubled prison terms and quadrupled the prison population to fight a phantom war on crime.
Very well done, heartily recommenced.
Would have been five stars, but in places he does make annoying asides about violence (and God knows why, sex) in entertainment.
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Title: Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor by Tara Herivel, Paul Wright ISBN: 0415935385 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis by Christian Parenti ISBN: 1859843034 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Their Sister's Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830- 1930 by Estelle B Freedman ISBN: 0472080520 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1981 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality by Luana Ross ISBN: 0292770847 Publisher: University of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Acres of Skin by Allen M. Hornblum ISBN: 0415923360 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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