Nelson Rockefeller in Latin America
Global Currents of US Prison Growth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4977537 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Micol Seigel (Indiana University Bloomington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 161-176 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/1477570015z.000000000106 |
| OpenAlex | W2224505224 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
Nelson Rockefeller is a key piece of the puzzle that is the explosion of the US prison population in the last forty years, thanks both to his drug policies of 1973 and his response to the Attica prison rebellion two years previously, which set in motion a series of changes in prison practice. This essay argues that understandings of Rockefeller’s attitudes about crime and pun-ishment, and US prison growth in general, would be enhanced by paying at-tention to transnational currents, in particular the riptides of the Cold War. It therefore places Rockefeller’s prison-related actions within the context of his long experience in Latin America prior to and during his governorship of New York, showing his evolving anti-communism to be a product of his Latin-American engagements, including a crucial trip to the region in 1969. Contextualizing Rockefeller in this way reveals some of the transnational currents of his punitive turn, as well as the nation’s
Communism · Criminology · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Population · Prison · Prison population · Punitive damages · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Demography · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
Ghetto revolts
The Culture of Control
Going up the River
Population Impact of Mass Incarceration Under New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws
Nelson A. Rockefeller’s Office of Inter-American Affairs (1940-1946) and Record Group 229
Criminal Intimacy
Poverty in Common
Warfare in the American Homeland
Punishment and DemocracyThree Strikes and You're Out in California
The Condemnation of Blackness
Frontlash
The Prisoners' Rights Movement and Its Impacts, 1960-80
The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement
The Rich Neighbor Policy
The Attila the Hun Law
The Prison Industrial Complex
Mass Imprisonment
The Rockefeller Report on the Americas. The Official Report of a United States Presidential Mission for the Western Hemisphere
The Inner City and the Favela
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |