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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
James Austin; John Irwin |
ISBN: | 9780534615963 0534615961 |
OCLC Number: | 149099290 |
Description: | xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | I. Our Imprisonment Binge -- America's Growing Correctional Industrial Complex- The Costs of the Imprisonment Binge- The Politics of the Fear of Crime- America's History of Warehousing Prisoners- What Has Been Accomplished by the Imprisonment Binge?- A Glimmer of Hope- Notes II. Who Goes to Prison? -- Public Misperceptions About Who Goes to Prison- National Trends on Prison Admissions- A Closer Look at Who Goes to Prison- How Serious Are Their Crimes?- Patterns of Crime- More Recent Portraits- Summary- Notes III. The Imprisonment of Children and Women -- Introduction- The Children's Imprisonment Binge- The Imprisonment Binge of Women- Notes IV. Doing Time -- Warehousing Prisoners- The Development of the Contemporary Prison- The Modern Bureaucratic Prison- The Prisoner Experience- Coping with Violence- Crippled- Alienated- Notes V. The Correctional Treatment Industrial Complex -- Introduction- Factors Related to Criminal Behavior- What Does Work?- Boot Camps- Prison-based Drug Treatment- Summary- Notes VI. The Rise and Fall of Supermax -- Segregation and Supermax- History of Administration Segregation- Turmoil in Lockup- The Move to Supermax Prisons- The Consequences of Lockup- The Declining Use of Super Maxes- A Glimmer of Hope-How and Why Mississippi Closed Its Supermax- Notes VII. Private Prisons- Can They Do Better? -- Background- Privatization of Corrections: A Historical Overview- The Debate- What the Research Shows- The Future of Privatization- Notes VIII. Release, Recidivism, and Reentry -- Background- The Growing Number of Prison Releases- The Criminogenic Effects of Parole Supervision- Obstacles to Making It After Release- Those Who Make It- Notes IX. Special Topics -- Introduction- Confidential Informants and the War on Drugs- Terrorism and Prisons- Three Strikes- The Growing Number of Lifers- Sex Offenders- Notes X. Unlocking America -- Introduction- The "Incarceration Reduces Crime" Debate- Voodoo Criminology- America's Farm System of Criminals- Notes. |
Responsibility: | James Austin, John Irwin. |
Abstract:
Offers an argument illustrating how the US attempts to lower crime by using our correctional system as the primary solution. This book provides coverage that exposes students to the varying points of view of the corrections system. It includes coverage of such key issues as sex offenders, immigration, the impact of the war on terror, and more.
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1. Our Imprisonment Binge. 2. Who Goes to Prison. 3. The Imprisonment of Children and Women. 4. The Private Prison Binge. 5. Doing Time. 6. Super Max. 7. Release. 8. The Correctional Treatment Industrial Complex. 9. The Three Strikes and You're Out Movement. 10. It's About Time. Index. Read more...
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