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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books Encyclopedias History |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: McShane, Marilyn D. Encyclopedia of American Prisons. Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis, ©2004 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marilyn D McShane; Franklin P Williams |
| ISBN: | 9780203344866 0203344863 |
| OCLC Number: | 1048387138 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (902 pages). |
| Contents: | Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Chronology of American Prison History -- A -- Accreditation -- Administration -- Administrative Segregation -- AIDS -- Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary -- Alcohol Treatment Programs in Prison -- American Correctional Association -- Angola (Louisiana State Penitentiary) -- Architecture -- Argot -- Ashurst-Sumners Act -- Attica -- Auburn System -- B -- Sanford Bates (1884-1972) -- Bedford Hills Correctional Facility -- James V. Bennett (1894-1978) -- George J. Beto (1916-1991) -- Boot Camps -- Zebulon Brockway (1827-1920) -- Building Tenders -- C -- Chain Gangs -- Chaplains -- Children of Prisoners -- Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act -- Classification Systems -- Co-Correctional Facilities -- Commissaries -- Community Relations -- Conjugal Visits -- Contact Visits -- William Conte (1926- ) -- Corporal Punishment -- Correctional Officers -- Crowding -- D -- Katherine Bement Davis (1860-1935) -- Death Row -- Detainers -- Determinate Sentences -- Developmentally Disabled Offenders -- Diagnostic and Reception Centers -- Diet and Food Service -- Disabled Inmates -- Discipline -- Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) -- Double Celling -- Drug and Alcohol Use in Prison -- Drug Treatment -- Due Process Rights of Prisoners -- E -- Eastern State Penitentiary -- Educational Programs -- Education of All Handicapped Children Act -- Elmira Reformatory -- Escapes -- Executions in the United States -- F -- Federal Bureau of Prisons -- Films -- Force, Use of -- Fort Leavenworth -- G -- Gangs -- Howard Belding Gill (1890-1989) -- Good Time Credit -- H -- Mary Belle Harris (1874-1957) -- John Haviland (1792-1852) -- Hawes-Cooper Act -- Health Care -- History of Prisons -- Homicide -- I -- Illegal Aliens in Prison -- Indeterminate Sentences -- Industry. Inmate Self-Governance -- Inmate Supervision: The New Generation Philosophy -- Interstate Compact Agreement -- J -- Jailhouse Lawyers -- Judicial Intervention -- L -- Lease System -- Legal Issues -- Life without Parole -- Long-Term Prisoners and Lifers -- M -- Austin Harbutt MacCormick (1893-1979) -- Richard A. McGee (1897-1983) -- Marion Penitentiary -- Mentally III Prisoners -- Mutilation -- N -- National Prison Project -- Newgate Prison -- News Media -- Norfolk Prison -- O -- Thomas Mott Osborne (1859-1926) -- P -- Panopticon -- Parole Boards -- Patuxent Institution -- Pennsylvania Prison Society -- The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons -- Prerelease Programs -- The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, Task Force Report: Corrections -- Prisonization -- Privacy -- Private Prisons -- Protective Custody -- Public Information Office and Public Relations -- R -- Racial Conflict -- Recidivism -- Recreation Programs -- Reformatory -- Rehabilitation Act of 1973 -- Rehabilitation Programs -- Religion in Prison -- Research in Prison -- Riots -- Benjamin Rush (1747-1813) -- S -- San Quentin Prison -- Searches -- Security and Control -- Sentences, Excessive -- Sex Offender Programming -- Sexual Exploitation in Prison -- Sing Sing Prison -- Site Selection and Construction of Prisons -- Snitch -- Stateville -- Suicide -- T -- Technology -- Treatment Plans -- Trusties -- U -- Unions -- V -- Violence -- Visitation -- Vocational Programs -- Volunteers -- W -- Walla Walla, Washington State Penitentiary -- Walnut Street Jail -- Wardens -- Enoch Cobb Wines (1806-1879) -- Women Inmates -- Work Programs -- Work-Release Programs -- Y -- Youth in Prison -- Index. |
| Series Title: | Garland studies in the history of American labor. |
Abstract:
A comprehensive reference that presents an overview of imprisonment in the nation that knows it best (i.e., with the highest incarceration rate in the world). Some 160 original, signed essays by US corrections experts offer historical perspectives, current analysis, and future outlooks. The coverag
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"A significant addition to the reference literature of crime and punishment." -- Rettig on Reference"Welcome as an objective, reliable, and authoritative source of current information about U.S. penal institutions. Enthusiastically recommended for larger reference collections." -- Library Journal"Because of its breadth and depth of encyclopedic articles on the American prison system, past and present, this volume is recommended for all history and social science reference collections." -- Reference Book Review Read more...
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