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First published online May, 2008

Book Review: Ruth Wilson Gilmore: Golden Gulag: Prisons,Surplus,and Opposition in Globalizing California. Berkeley,CA: University of California Press,2007. 412 pp. $19.95,£12.95 (pbk). ISBN 978 0 520 24201 2. Bruce Western: Punishment and Inequality in America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation,2006. 224 pp. $29.95 (hbk). ISBN 978 0 87154 894 8