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Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex

This short text, ideal for Social Problems and Criminal Justice courses, examines the American prison system, its conditions, and its effect on society. Wehr and Aseltine define the Prison Industrial Complex and explain how the current prison system is a contemporary social problem. They conclude by using California as a case study, and explore alternatives and alterations to the prison system.

Kevin Wehr is associate professor of Sociology at the California State University, Sacramento, where he specializes in criminology and environmental and cultural sociology. He received his PhD in 2002 and his MS in 1998 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his BA in 1994 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His other works include Americas Fight over Water: The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems,? Hermes on Two Wheels: The Sociology of Bicycle Messengers, and DIY: The Search for Control and Self-Reliance in the 21st Century.

Elyshia Aseltine is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Towson University in Maryland. Her research focuses on punishment and inequality in the United States and Africa.

Framing 21st Century Social Issues

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Body Problems
Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society
Ben Agger

Sex, Drugs, and Death
Addressing Youth Problems in American
Society
Tammy Anderson

The Stupidity Epidemic
Worrying About Students, Schools, and
Americas Future
Joel Best

Empire Versus Democracy
The Triumph of Corporate
and Military Power
Carl Boggs

Contentious Identities
Ethnic, Religious, and Nationalist
Conflicts in Todays World
Daniel Chirot

The Future of Higher Education
Dan Clawson and Max Page

Waste and Consumption
Capitalism, the Environment, and
the Life of Things
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi

Rapid Climate Change
Causes, Consequences, and Solutions
Scott G. McNall

The Problem of Emotions in Societies
Jonathan H. Turner

Outsourcing the Womb
Race, Class, and Gestational Surrogacy
in a Global Market
France Winddance Twine

Changing Times for Black Professionals
Adia Harvey Wingfield

Why Nations Go to War
A Sociology of Military Conflict
Mark P. Worrell

How Ethical Systems Change: Eugenics, the Final Solution, Bioethics
Sheldon Ekland-Olson and Julie Beicken

How Ethical Systems Change: Abortion and Neonatal Care
Sheldon Ekland-Olson and Elyshia Aseltine

How Ethical Systems Change: Tolerable Suffering and Assisted Dying
Sheldon Ekland-Olson and Elyshia Aseltine

How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment
Sheldon Ekland-Olson and Danielle Dirks

Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives
The Power of Race, Class, and Gender
Natalia Sarkisian and Naomi Gerstel

Disposable Youth
Racialized Memories, and the Culture
of Cruelty
Henry Giroux

Due Process Denied
Detentions and Deportations in the
United States
Tanya Golash-Boza

Oversharing
Presentation of Self in the Internet Age
Ben Agger

Foreign Remedies
What the Experience of Other Nations
Can Tell Us about Next Steps in
Reforming U.S. Health Care
David A. Rochefort and Kevin P. Donnelly

DIY
The Search for Control and Self-Reliance
in the 21st Century
Kevin Wehr

Torture
A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights
Lisa Hajjar

Terror
Social, Political, and Economic Perspectives
Mark Worrell

Girls With Guns
Firearms, Feminism, and Militarism
France Winddance Twine

Forthcoming

Are We Coddling Prisoners?
Benjamin Fleury-Steiner

Identity Problems in the Facebook Era
Daniel Trottier

Trafficking and Terror
Pardis Mahdavi

Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex
Crime and Incarceration in the 21st Century
Kevin Wehr and Elyshia Aseltine

Color Line?
Race and Sport in America
Krystal Beamon

Unequal Prospects
Is Working Longer the Answer?
Tay McNamara and John Williamson

iTime
Childhood, Work and Leisure in the
Smartphone Era
Ben Agger

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Wehr, Kevin, 1972-

Beyond the prison industrial complex: crime and incarceration in the 21st
century / Kevin Wehr and Elyshia Aseltine.

p. cm. (Framing 21st century social issues)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Prison-industrial complexUnited States. 2. ImprisonmentUnited States.
3. Criminal justice, Administration ofUnited States. I. Aseltine, Elyshia.
II. Title.

HV9471.W44 2013
365.973dc23

2012035288

ISBN: 978-0-415-63553-0 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-07088-8 (ebk)

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