Prisons: Today and Tomorrow,9780763729042

Prisons: Today and Tomorrow

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780763729042
ISBN10: 0763729043
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-11-30
Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett
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Summary

Prisons Today and Tomorrow, Second Edition uses current case studies and research to present balanced and comprehensive coverage of prisons and prisoners. Featuring chapters contributed by leading authorities on the modern prison system, this text examines the many purposes of prisons-punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation-and examines controversial issues such as whether imprisonment actually deters crime or merely serves as punishment. Click the Additional Information... link to download sample chapters from this text. Preview sample chapters from Prisons Today and Tomorrow, Second Edition. (Documents are in Adobe .pdf format). Chapter 1 Read now! Chapter 2 Read now!

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Poem xii
Preface xiii
Contributors xv
Section I The Philosophy and History of Prisons
1(76)
The Rationale for Imprisonment
3(19)
Joycelyn M. Pollock
Philosophy of Punishment
3(5)
Retributive Rationale
4(1)
Utilitarian Rationale
5(3)
Methods of Punishment
8(1)
Philosophy of Imprisonment
8(6)
Paradigms and Prison
9(4)
The New Conservatism: Justice and ``Just Desserts''
13(1)
The Effect of Retributivism and a New Era
14(2)
Restorative Justice: An Alternative Philosophy?
14(2)
Utilitarian Caring: The Reintegrative Movement
16(1)
Conclusions
16(2)
Chapter Resources
18(4)
The American Prison in Historical Perspective: Race, Gender, and Adjustment
22(21)
Robert Johnson
Ania Dobrzanska
Seri Palla
Penitentiaries
23(6)
The Separate System
24(1)
The Congregate System
25(1)
Women and Minorities in the Penitentiary
26(1)
The Reformatory Era
27(2)
The ``Big House''
29(4)
The Correctional Institution
33(2)
Contemporary Prisons
35(2)
Conclusions
37(2)
Chapter Resources
39(4)
Sentencing Trends and Incarceration
43(34)
Alida V. Merlo
Prison Inmates
44(6)
Sentencing Reforms
50(5)
The Supreme Court and the Sentencing Process
52(1)
Chronic-Offender Legislation
53(2)
Drug Offenders and Prison Overcrowding
55(2)
Responding to Overcrowding
57(6)
Strategies to Fight Overcrowding
58(1)
Texas and California: Leaders in Incarceration
59(1)
Front-End Strategies to Fight Overcrowding
60(2)
Back-End Strategies to Fight Overcrowding
62(1)
Future Directions
63(3)
Social Costs of Prison Expansion
65(1)
Conclusions
66(3)
Chapter Resources
69(8)
Section II The Social World of the Prison
77(118)
The Social World of the Prisoner
79(45)
Chad Trulson
Who Is in Prison?
79(5)
Overall Population
80(1)
Race and Gender
80(1)
People in Prison by Type of Crime Committed
81(2)
Sentence Length and Time Served
83(1)
Age and Education
84(1)
Summary
84(1)
The Prison As a Social Setting
84(2)
Researching the Prisoner Subculture
86(2)
The Process of Imprisonment
88(5)
Degradation Ceremonies
88(1)
Getting ``Cliqued On'' and ``Ho Checked''
89(1)
Deprivation, Importation, and the Development of Prisoner Subcultures
90(3)
Prisons from the 1940s to the 1960s
93(10)
The Inmate Code
94(1)
Prison Slang
95(2)
Prisoner Roles
97(1)
Prisoner Values
98(2)
Homosexuality and Rape
100(2)
Adapting to Prison: Prisonization
102(1)
Prisons from the 1960s to the 1980s
103(2)
A Changing Free World
104(1)
A Changing Prison World
104(1)
Prisons from the 1980s to Today
105(9)
Changes to the Inmate Code and Subculture
106(1)
Prison Gangs
107(2)
Racial Conflict in Prisons
109(2)
The Black Market in Prisons
111(1)
Responses to the Violent Prison Today: Containing the ``Extraordinary Minority''
112(2)
Change and Survival in the Prisoner Subculture Today
114(1)
Avoiding the ``Mix'': Niches and Sanctuaries in the Prisoner Subculture
114(1)
Conclusions
115(2)
Chapter Resources
117(7)
Industry, Agriculture, and Education
124(34)
William Stone
History of Inmate Labor
124(4)
England
125(1)
Early America
126(2)
The 20th Century and Prison Labor
128(3)
State-Use Laws
128(2)
Prison Industry Enhancement Certification
130(1)
Prison Labor Today
131(10)
Agriculture Programs
132(1)
Manufacturing Programs
133(1)
Public Works and Prison Construction
133(1)
Prison Maintenance
134(1)
Current Issues in Prison Labor
135(6)
Inmate Education
141(10)
Contemporary Vocational-Education Programs
143(5)
Contemporary Academic-Education Programs
148(3)
Conclusions
151(2)
Chapter Resources
153(5)
Classification and Rehabilitation
158(37)
David Spencer
Joycelyn M. Pollock
The Development of Rehabilitation
158(3)
The Medical Model
159(1)
The Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal
160(1)
Classification of Inmates
161(4)
Classification for Management
161(2)
Classification for Treatment
163(2)
Prison Programming
165(5)
Inmate Activities
165(3)
Treatment Programs
168(2)
Bringing About Change
170(11)
Individual and Group Therapy
172(1)
Therapeutic Communities
172(1)
Psychological and Psychiatric Programs
173(8)
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Treatment
181(6)
Evaluation Studies
183(2)
What Does Work?
185(1)
What Works for Women?
185(2)
Conclusions
187(1)
Chapter Resources
188(7)
Section III Prison Authority and Prisoner Rights
195(64)
Correctional Staff and Management
197(29)
Kelly Cheeseman
The Correctional Officer
198(17)
Training: The Transformation from Citizen to CO
198(2)
The Base of Correctional Officer Power
200(1)
``The Job'': Correctional Officer Duty Positions
201(2)
The Correctional Officer Subculture
203(3)
Minority and Female Officers
206(3)
Stress and the Correctional Officer
209(6)
Administrators and Managers
215(4)
Management Functions
215(3)
Management Styles
218(1)
Conclusions
219(2)
Chapter Resources
221(5)
Prisoners' Rights
226(33)
John McLaren
Era of the Hands-Off Doctrine
226(3)
Mechanics of Litigation
229(7)
Section 1983 Actions
229(2)
Habeas Corpus
231(1)
Criminal Remedies
231(1)
Americans with Disabilities Act
232(1)
Prison Litigation Reform Act
232(1)
The Eighth Amendment: Corporal Punishment and the Use of Force
233(2)
Other Applications of the Eighth Amendment
235(1)
Access to the Legal System
236(1)
Jailhouse Lawyers and Law Libraries
236(1)
Legal Correspondence
237(1)
First Amendment Rights
237(7)
Press and Media Access
237(1)
Correspondence and Censorship
238(3)
Visitation
241(1)
Religious Practices
242(1)
Personal Appearance
243(1)
Summary of First Amendment Protections
244(1)
The Right to Privacy
244(2)
Medical Treatment in Correctional Institutions
246(3)
Equal Protection
249(1)
Procedural Due Process
250(1)
Conclusions
251(2)
Chapter Resources
253(6)
Section IV Convicts and the Community
259(54)
Jails
261(36)
Dennis Giever
History of Jails
263(3)
The History of Jails in America
265(1)
The 20th-Century Jail
266(10)
Functions of Jails
268(4)
Population Characteristics
272(1)
Architecture
273(3)
Jail Operations and Administration
276(9)
Legal Issues
277(2)
Jail Standards
279(1)
Overcrowding
280(1)
Special-Needs Inmates
281(4)
Jail Socialization and Subcultures
285(3)
A Day In the Life
287(1)
Conclusions
288(3)
Chapter Resources
291(6)
Looking Toward the Future
297(16)
Joycelyn M. Pollock
Overcrowded Prisons, Drug Laws, and Race
298(2)
Opportunity Costs
300(1)
Private Prisons, Private Profits
300(2)
The Supermax Prison
302(3)
Cross-Sex Supervision
305(1)
A New Era of Prison History?
306(2)
Reentry
306(1)
Alternatives to Prison
307(1)
Conclusions
308(2)
Chapter Resources
310(3)
Index 313

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