The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime

Name: The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime
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Author: Dyer, Joel
ISBN: 9780813335070

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Language: English

Published by Westview Pr, 1999

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Title: The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime
Author: Dyer, Joel
Publisher: Westview Pr
Publication year: 1999
Condition: Good+
Dust jacket: Good++
Binding: Hard Cover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0813335078
ISBN 13: 9780813335070
Edition: First Edition.
Item weight: 22 ounces
Dimensions: 8vo - over 7
Seller catalogs: 1st Edition

A critical look at the United States criminal justice system, raising an obvious question: If crime rates arent going up, why is the prison population?. In The Perpetual Prisoner Machine, author Joel Dyer takes a critical look at the United States criminal justice system as we enter the new millennium. Dyer argues that it is a combination of violent media content, the push for privatization, and the increasing dependence of politicians upon public opinion polls and campaign finance that accounts for the unprecedented explosion in Americas prison population, not the crime rates as we have been led to believe. America has more than tripled its prison population since 1980 even though crime rates have been either flat or declining. This raises an obvious question: If crime rates arent going up, why is the prison population? The answer is profit, and in our quest to please shareholders, we have turned millions of Americans into a new, human commodity. }In The Perpetual Prisoner Machine , author Joel Dyer takes a critical look at the United States criminal justice system as we enter the new millennium. America has more than tripled its prison population since 1980 even though crime rates have been either flat or declining. The U.S. now incarcerates nearly two million people in its prisons and jails on any given day and over five million of its citizens are currently under some form of justice department supervision. These facts raise an obvious question: If crime rates arent going up, why is the prison population? The Perpetual Prisoner Machine provides the answer to this question and, shockingly, it has little to do with crime or justice. The answer is profit.In the 1990s, through their mutual and pension funds, millions of American investors are now unwittingly profiting from crime. As a result of Americas controversial push towards the privatization of its justice system, a growing number of well-known and politically influential U. S. Corporationsand subsequently their shareholdersare now cashing in on a prison trade whose profit potential is tied directly to the growth of the prison population. A disturbing realization, when you consider the influence that these same multi-national companies now have over our governments policy-making process by way of their lobbyists and their ability to fill campaign coffers. The Perpetual Prisoner Machine explains how the new prison-industrial complex has capitalized upon the publics fear of crimewhich has its origins in violent media contentto help bring about the hard on crime policies that have led to our prison-filling, and therefore profitable, war on crime. In addition to a quest for profits, Dyer describes an astounding chain of events including media consolidation and globalization, advances in communication technology, and the increasing political dependence upon publ ic opinion polls and campaign funding that have led to the creation of what the author calls the perpetual prisoner machine, a mechanism designed to suck the funds from social programs that diminish the crime-enhancing power of poverty and spit them into the bank accounts of those who own stock in the prison-industrial complex.Dyer concludes that powerful, market-driven forces have manipulated America into fighting a very real war against an imaginary foe. Unfortunately, says Dyer, real wars have real casualties. And in this case, the victims are Americas poor, particularly those segments of our black and Hispanic population who live in poverty and who now comprise the vast majority of the new human commodity. }

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