Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment (Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law)

In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 million people are held in state and federal prisons. Arizona's Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift toward prison warehousing began, and soon led the pack in using punitive incarceration in response to crime. Sunbelt Justice looks at the development of Arizona's punishment politics, policies, and practices, and brings to light just how and why we have become a mass incarceration nation. Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction: From the Reformative Projectto the Warehousing Solution......Page 14 1 Arizona’s Political and Penal Roots......Page 35 2 The Dawn of Progress and the Making ofa New Bureaucracy......Page 66 3 An Institution in Search of Meaning......Page 98 4 The New-Old Penal Regime......Page 128 5 The Postrehabilitative Prototype Is Realized......Page 159 6 Taking Back the Prisons......Page 187 7 Making Meaning of the Arizona Case......Page 221 Epilogue: Smart on Crime?......Page 234 Appendix: Incarcerated Population in Arizona,1958–2003......Page 244 Notes......Page 246 List of Cases Cited......Page 254 References......Page 256 Index......Page 272 Introduction : From The Reformative Project To The Warehousing Solution -- Arizona's Political And Penal Roots -- The Dawn Of Progress And The Making Of A New Bureaucracy -- An Institution In Search Of Meaning -- The New-old Penal Regime -- The Postrehabilitative Prototype Is Realized -- Taking Back The Prisons -- Making Meaning Of The Arizona Case -- Epilogue : Smart On Crime? Mona Lynch. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Introduction : from the reformative project to the warehousing solution -- Arizona's political and penal roots -- The dawn of progress and the making of a new bureaucracy -- An institution in search of meaning -- The new-old penal regime -- The postrehabilitative prototype is realized -- Taking back the prisons -- Making meaning of the Arizona case -- Epilogue : the parallel universe The story of the dramatic spread of mass incarceration across the United States, through a close look at the development of Arizona's punishment politics, policies, and practices.