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Various terms to describe mass incarceration

Criminal justice industrial complex ● crime control industry ● Prison industrial complex

Factors that make US #1 world punisher

Mandatory Sentencing ● Three Strikes Law ● Private Prison Expansions ● Harsh immigration laws

ALEC(American Legislative Exhcange Council)

Known for making modern bills which are formed by state lawmakers to be picked up by state legislatures.

Garland's Indices of Change

Decline of rehabilitative ideal- A shift from penal welfare toward a culture of control/ ● (ex. removing inmates from society in order to ensure safety). ● Switched to managing high-risk inmates due to a political rise of harsher punishments.

Return of the Victim

Puts an emphasis on victim rights, on hearing voices from victims, and resitution. ● The purpose is to not only give victims compensation for loss of fiances and property, but to also acknowledge victims with respect and take their experiences with respect.

Return of the Classical School

Focuses on the inmates' individual responsibility and shifts for punishments to be proportionate to the crime—swift and effective to deter offenses being committed in the future

Expressive Justice

Symbolic gestures about how we get to decide to punish people

Explanations for Incarcerations

● Alexander→race ● Gilmore→economics ● Garland→culture ● gottschalk →poltics ● Forman→community ● Davis→ideology