Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (568 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312680473 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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A pioneer in criminal justice severityfrom assembly-line executions to supermax isolation, from mandatory sentencing to prison privatizationTexas is the most locked-down state in the most incarcerated country in the world. Drawing on the individual stories as well as authoritative research, Texas Tough reveals the true origins of America's prison juggernaut and points toward a more just and humane future.. In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of America
"so the hypocrisy of the system is its greatest detraction. This is a very detailed though not-unbiased" according to M. Novikoff. Let us try to get past the liberal/conservative terminology and look at this subject from the perspective of the ethics and morality of a punitive approach to life and its problems. Fundamentally, many Americans who support "getting tough on crime" won't support that approach when it comes to their own community members, so the hypocrisy of the system is its greatest detraction. This is a very detailed though not-unbiased study of what American society. Not for the faint of heart R. W. Stimson I devoured this book! Other readers are cautioned, however, that it is not for the faint of heart. There can be no viewpoint more unabashedly liberal than that of Robert Perkinson - so consider yourself a conservative reader who wants to understand another viewpoint. Then, when you have finished digesting his treatise, then and only then, re-weigh your views of criminals and the criminal justice system.I am a conservative Texan who has spent years visi. Crime and punishment in the Lone Star State Informative and well-documented history of America's largest prison system. Highly recommended!
A fascinating and often deeply troubling book. The American penal system, he argues, is very much a product of its southern influences (and, as a sure-to-be-controversial corollary to that, the racial imbalance of its prisoners is a kind of backlash against the civil rights movement). --David Pitt . From Booklist Although the American prison system is based (somewhat) on the principle of rehabilitation, it still retains, Perkinson says, powerful elements of one of its original influences: retribution. By way of explanation, he examines the country’s harshest, largest penal system, that of Texas, the state that reigns supreme in the punishment business. (In one city, Huntsville, almost half its population is in prison and another fifth works in jobs related to keeping them there.) Perkinson explores the history of the state and its penal system, showing how retribution, at least as much as rehabilitation, played a key role in the system’s evolution; and, by ext
He lives in Honolulu, Hawai'i.. Robert Perkinson is a professor of American studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa