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Prison Industrial Complex

The Prison Industrial Complex is a structural and institutional phenomenon in which the expansion of the penal system becomes interwoven with corporate and state interests, particularly through privatized prison management, labor exploitation, and legislative policies that incentivize mass incarceration for economic gain.

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Publications

166

Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society.

Donald J. Shoemaker, James B. Jacobs · Social Forces · 1978 · 602 citations

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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Rachel S. Wexelbaum · 2012 · 493 citations

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The New `Peculiar Institution':

Loïc Wacquant · Theoretical Criminology · 2000 · 390 citations

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Globalisation and US prison growth: from military Keynesianism to post-Keynesian militarism

Rüth Wilson Gilmore · Race & Class · 1999 · 345 citations

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Crime Control as Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style?

Thomas O’Reilly-Fleming, Nils Christie · The Canadian Journal of Sociology · 1995 · 331 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JS
    Julia Sudbury

    Mills College, United States

    6 publications · 310 citations

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  2. GG
    G Grosser

    Massachusetts Mental Health Center, United States

    4 publications · 295 citations

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  3. LE
    Lloyd E. Ohlin

    University of Chicago, United States

    4 publications · 295 citations

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  4. RA
    Richard A. Cloward

    Columbia University, United States

    4 publications · 295 citations

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  5. GM
    Gresham M. Sykes

    Princeton University, United States

    4 publications · 295 citations

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Institutions

124

  1. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    714 citations

  2. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    113 citations

  3. New York University

    New York, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    66 citations

  4. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

    Milwaukee, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    50 citations

  5. Government of the District of Columbia

    Washington D.C., United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    29 citations

  6. Centre de Sociologie Européenne

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    536 citations

  7. St. Catherine University

    Saint Paul, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    190 citations

  8. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    35 citations

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  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 7 publications · 263 citations

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  3. The British Journal of Criminology

    5 publications · 160 citations

    5

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  4. Crime Law and Social Change

    4 publications · 132 citations

    4

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  5. Meridians

    4 publications · 192 citations

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