The birth of the digital prison: Carceral state expansion in a digital age

Punishment and society scholars studying the dramatic increase in “carceral capacity” during the rise of US mass incarceration have tended to focus narrowly on prison construction. Drawing from research on digital punishment and the shadow carceral state, I shift attention instead to the expansion o...

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Autor principal: Martin, Liam (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2025
En: Punishment & society
Año: 2025, Volumen: 27, Número: 5, Páginas: 1055-1077
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