A highly recommended read I would have chosen a different headline though: The Political Economy of Modernisation and the Origins of Mass Incarceration in the US . The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51