CRM 4302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: American Correctional Association, Private Prison, G4S Secure Solutions

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 4302
• Professor: Vajmeh Tabibi

Document Summary

8. 1 the self-presentation: nonetheless, to a foreigner, it is a moving experience to have in the hand the official publication of the american. Telephones, electronic surveillance systems, weapons, security equipment: the running of prisons also plays a prominent of part food services, weapons, etc. 8. 2 the private push: prison means money. And big in running: according to knepper and lilly (1991), health care and food service were two of the fastest growing sectors in the booming corrections industry. 8. 3 the technology push: with the end of the cold war, the military industrial complex was in trouble. They learn of course that they are at war, the enemy is everywhere, dangerous, mobile. He has to be fought by military measured, captured, put in prison, and thereafter followed step by step if he ever comes out: these are golden days for the electronic industry ex. System of electronic bracelets to track parolees: satellites and telephones can control where the parolees are.