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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThough it originated as a doctoral thesis, this book reads like a monograph and provides a truly comprehensive understanding of the development and consequences of private prisons. The writing is articulate, and Gunderson (Louisiana State Univ.) supports her suppositions and conclusions with data, which are presented both in-line in a format accessible to interested readers and in a thorough appendix and bibliography for scholars and researchers. The book is concise...The reader comes away with an understanding of the incentives and costs that have led to prison privatization. * Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Just Like Selling Cars, Real Estate, or Hamburgers 1.1 Private Prisons Enter the Market 1.2 Continuing Controversies 1.3 The Growth of the Carceral State and Carceral Governance 1.4 Looking Ahead Chapter 2: Profit in American Corrections 2.1 Private Interests and Carceral Institutions 2.2 Modern Private Prisons 2.3 Existing Research and Limited Data 2.4 A Source of New Data on Private Prisons Chapter 3: The Rights Revolution and Prison Privatization 3.1 The Judiciary's "Hands-Off" Attitude and Slaves of the State 3.2 The Rise of Mass Incarceration 3.3 Inmate Lawsuit Growth and Private Prisons 3.4 What About Successful Lawsuits? 3.5 Accountability and Privatization Chapter 4: Inmate Lawsuits and Private Prisons 4.1 Data: Private Prisons and Inmate Litigation 4.2 Lawsuits and Other Explanations for Privatization 4.3 Instrumental Variables Estimation 4.4 Accountability and Privatization in Context Chapter 5: Do Private Prison Firms Respond to Successful Prison Litigation? 5.1 The Obama DOJ and Private Prisons 5.2 Investors and Company Stock Performance 5.3 Private Prison Firm Stocks and Politics 5.4 Event Study Methodology 5.5 Successful Lawsuits Prompt Company Caution Chapter 6: Captive Market 6.1 You Send a Check and Send a Prisoner 6.2 It's Like Comparing Atrocity to Atrocity 6.3 As Long as They're Functioning, That's Fine 6.4 They Are Always Going to Have a Place 6.5 Metastasis of the Larger Cancer of Mass Incarceration Appendices
