Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion

Winner, 2017 American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book Award

An examination of the neoliberal politics of incarceration

The growth of mass incarceration in the United States eludes neat categorization as a product of the political Right. Liberals played important roles in both laying the foundation for and then participating in the conservative tough on crime movement that is largely credited with the rise of the prison state. But what of...