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Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) by David Dagan; Steven M. Teles is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
What is Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) about?
American conservatism rose hand-in-hand with the growth of mass incarceration. For decades, conservatives deployed "tough on crime" rhetoric to attack liberals as out-of-touch elitists who coddled criminals while the nation spiraled toward disorder. As a result, conservatives have been the motive force in building our vast prison system. Indeed, expanding the number of Americans under lock and key was long a point of pride for politicians on the right - even as the U.S. prison population eclipse
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- Author
- David Dagan; Steven M. Teles
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190246440
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social Science, Social Policy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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