Screen LibraryIncarcerating criminals : prisons and jails in social and organizational context /
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [1998] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Readings in crime and punishment
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 332 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
0195105419 9780195105414 |
| Index Number: | HV9471 |
| CLC: | D971.267 |
| Call Number: | D971.267/I36 |
| Contents: |
The disappearance of public executions / The historical origins of the sanction of imprisonment for serious crime / The invention of the penitentiary / Complete and austere institutions / Prisons for women, 1790-1980 / The legacy and future of corrections litigation / Prisons : the cruel and unusual punishment controversy / Judicial reform and prisoner control : the impact of Ruiz v. Estelle on a Texas Penitentiary / Judicial intervention : lessons from the past / A prison superintendent's perspective on women in prison / The Special Managment Inmate / Prison violence : a Scottish perspective / Changes in prison culture : prison gangs and the case of the "pepsi generation" / The brother's keeper : a review of the literature on correctional officers / Organizational barriers to women working as corrections officers in men's prisons / The prison as a constitutional government / HIV in prisons / AIDS recommendations and prisons in Australia / Tuberculosis in correctional facilities / Classification for control in jails and prisons / Effective treatment for drug and alcohol problems : what do we know? / A full employment policy for prisons in the United States : some arguments, estimates, and implications / Literacy training and reintegration of offenders / Effective correctional programming : what empirical research tells us and what it doesn't / Disclipline / Prison and jail inmates at midyear 1996 / The jail / Who is in jail? An examination of the Rabble Hypothesis / The jail and the community / Criminal justice performance measures for prisons / Public imprisonment by private means : the re-emergence of private prisons and jails in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia / Racial disproportion in the U.S. prisons / What not to do about crime-- the American Society of Criminology 1994 Presidential Address / The bull market in corrections / The future of the penitentiary / |