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Marking Time in the Golden State

Author : Candace Kruttschnitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521532655
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Marking Time in the Golden State written by Candace Kruttschnitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, the nature of criminal punishment has undergone change in the United States. This case study of women serving time in California in the 1960s and 1990s examines key points in this recent history. The authors begin with a look at imprisonment at the California Institution for Women in the early 1960s, when the rehabilitative model dominated official discourse. They compare women's experiences in the 1990s, at the California Institution for Women and the Valley State Prison, when the recent 'get tough' era was near its peak. Drawing on archival data, interviews, and surveys, their analysis considers the relationships among official philosophies and practices of imprisonment, women's responses to the prison regime, and relations between women prisoners. The experiences of women prisoners reflected the transformations Americans have witnessed in punishment over recent decades, but they also mirrored the deprivations and restrictions of imprisonment.

Reaffirming Rehabilitation

Author : Francis T. Cullen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1455731307
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Reaffirming Rehabilitation written by Francis T. Cullen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaffirming Rehabilitation, 2nd Edition, brings fresh insights to one of the core works of criminal justice literature. This groundbreaking work analyzes the rehabilitative ideal within the American correctional system and discusses its relationship to and conflict with political ideologies. Many researchers and policymakers rejected the value of rehabilitation after Robert Martinson's proclamation that "nothing works." Cullen and Gilbert's book helped stem the tide of negativism that engulfed the U.S. correctional system in the years that followed the popularization of the "nothing works" doctrine. Now Cullen traces the social impact on U.S. corrections policy. This new edition is appropriate as a textbook in corrections courses and as recommended reading in related courses. It also serves as a resource for researchers and policymakers working in the field of corrections.

Breaking the Pendulum

Author : Philip Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190676817
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Pendulum written by Philip Goodman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of criminal justice in the U.S. is often described as a pendulum, swinging back and forth between strict punishment and lenient rehabilitation. While this view is common wisdom, it is wrong. In Breaking the Pendulum, Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps systematically debunk the pendulum perspective, showing that it distorts how and why criminal justice changes. The pendulum model blinds us to the blending of penal orientations, policies, and practices, as well as the struggle between actors that shapes laws, institutions, and how we think about crime, punishment, and related issues. Through a re-analysis of more than two hundred years of penal history, starting with the rise of penitentiaries in the 19th Century and ending with ongoing efforts to roll back mass incarceration, the authors offer an alternative approach to conceptualizing penal development. Their agonistic perspective posits that struggle is the motor force of criminal justice history. Punishment expands, contracts, and morphs because of contestation between real people in real contexts, not a mechanical "swing" of the pendulum. This alternative framework is far more accurate and empowering than metaphors that ignore or downplay the importance of struggle in shaping criminal justice. This clearly written, engaging book is an invaluable resource for teachers, students, and scholars seeking to understand the past, present, and future of American criminal justice. By demonstrating the central role of struggle in generating major transformations, Breaking the Pendulum encourages combatants to keep fighting to change the system.

Offending Women

Author : Lynne Allison Haney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520261909
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Offending Women written by Lynne Allison Haney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lynne Haney is already an important voice in the sociology of welfare but this book marks her debut as a major figure in the sociology of punishment and the study of governmentality. Offending Women is a fascinating work that combines rich ethnographic detail with a structural account of the changing contours of contemporary governance. Its original contributions to prison ethnography, women's studies, and the sociology of the penal-welfare state will make it a reference point in each of these disciplines."--David Garland, author of The Culture of Control "Offending Women is an exemplary piece of work. Haney's writing is engaging, crisp, and smart. She brilliantly assesses the various intentions of the state and incarcerated women and clarifies how these intentions are based on orientations toward punishment and 'healing' that demand fundamental rethinking."--Rickie Solinger, author of Pregnancy and Power and co-editor of Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States "Lynne Haney brings together her stupendous skills as an ethnographer and her theoretical insights into how states work to explain how the treatment of imprisoned women has changed over the past decade. An altogether brilliant book."--Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin

Breaking Women

Author : Jill A. McCorkel
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814761488
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Women written by Jill A. McCorkel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s, when the War on Drugs kicked into high gear and prison populations soared, the increase in women’s rate of incarceration has steadily outpaced that of men. In Breaking Women, Jill A. McCorkel draws upon four years of on-the-ground research in a major US women’s prison to uncover why tougher drug policies have so greatly affected those incarcerated there, and how the very nature of punishment in women’s detention centers has been deeply altered as a result. Through compelling interviews with prisoners and state personnel, McCorkel reveals that popular so-called “habilitation” drug treatment programs force women to accept a view of themselves as inherently damaged, aberrant addicts in order to secure an earlier release. These programs work to enforce stereotypes of deviancy that ultimately humiliate and degrade the women. The prisoners are left feeling lost and alienated in the end, and many never truly address their addiction as the programs’ organizers may have hoped. A fascinating and yet sobering study, Breaking Women foregrounds the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account of how the contemporary penal system impacts individual lives. Jill A. McCorkel is Associate Professor of Sociology at Villanova University.

After the War on Crime

Author : Mary Louise Frampton
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814727603
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book After the War on Crime written by Mary Louise Frampton and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

The Puzzle of Prison Order

Author : David Skarbek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190672528
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Puzzle of Prison Order written by David Skarbek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners' needs. In others, officials have remarkably little influence on the everyday life of prisoners, sometimes not even providing necessities like food and clean water. Why does prison social order around the world look so remarkably different? In The Puzzle of Prison Order, David Skarbek develops a theory of why prisons and prison life vary so much. He finds that how they're governed-sometimes by the state, and sometimes by the prisoners-matters the most. He investigates life in a wide array of prisons-in Brazil, Bolivia, Norway, a prisoner of war camp, England and Wales, women's prisons in California, and a gay and transgender housing unit in the Los Angeles County Jail-to understand the hierarchy of life on the inside. Drawing on economics and a vast empirical literature on legal systems, Skarbek offers a framework to not only understand why life on the inside varies in such fascinating and novel ways, but also how social order evolves and takes root behind bars.

The Modern Prison Paradox

Author : Amy E. Lerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107041457
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Prison Paradox written by Amy E. Lerman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy E. Lerman examines the shift from rehabilitation to punitivism that has taken place in the politics and practice of American corrections.

The American Prison

Author : Francis T. Cullen
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1452241368
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book The American Prison written by Francis T. Cullen and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in four decades, prison populations are declining and politicians have reached the consensus that mass imprisonment is no longer sustainable. At this unique moment in the history of corrections, the opportunity has emerged to discuss in meaningful ways how best to shape efforts to control crime and to intervene effectively with offenders. The American Prison: Imagining a Different Future, by Francis T. Cullen, Cheryl, Lero Johnson, and Mary K. Stohr, pulls together established correctional scholars to imagine what this prison future might entail. Each scholar uses his or her expertise to craft—in an accessible way for students to read—a blueprint for how to create a new penology along a particular theme. For example, one contributor writes about how to use existing research expertise to create a prison that is therapeutic and another provides insight on how to create a "feminist" prison. In the final chapter the editors pull together the "lessons learned" in a cohesive, comprehensive essay.

Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security

Author : D. Drake
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137004835
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security written by D. Drake and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on research in men's long-term, maximum-security prisons, this book examines three interconnected problems: the tendency of the prison to obscure other social problems and conceal its own failings, the pursuit of greater levels of human security through repressive and violent means and the persistence of the belief in the problem of 'evil'.

After Imprisonment

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178769271X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book After Imprisonment written by Austin Sarat and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to life after imprisonment. The chapters examine issues around offender rehabilitation, overcriminalization, and mass incarceration.

Explaining U.S. Imprisonment

Author : Mary Bosworth
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412924863
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Explaining U.S. Imprisonment written by Mary Bosworth and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining U.S. Imprisonment builds on and extends some of the contemporary issues of women in prison, minorities, and the historical path to modern prisons as well as the social influences on prison reform.

The Effects of Imprisonment

Author : Alison Liebling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113401239X
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Effects of Imprisonment written by Alison Liebling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a group of leading authorities in this field, both academics and practitioners, to address the complex issues that the increasing number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere has raised. It assess the implications and results of research in this field, and suggests ways of mitigating the often devastating personal and psychological consequences of imprisonment.

Addicted to Rehab

Author : Allison McKim
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813587646
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Addicted to Rehab written by Allison McKim and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of the American “war on drugs” and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce the prison population: addiction treatment. In Addicted to Rehab, Bard College sociologist Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two such rehab programs for women, one located in the criminal justice system and one located in the private healthcare system—two very different ways of defining and treating addiction. McKim’s book shows how addiction rehab reflects the race, class, and gender politics of the punitive turn. As a result, addiction has become a racialized category that has reorganized the link between punishment and welfare provision. While reformers hope that treatment will offer an alternative to punishment and help women, McKim argues that the framework of addiction further stigmatizes criminalized women and undermines our capacity to challenge gendered subordination. Her study ultimately reveals a two-tiered system, bifurcated by race and class.

Qualitative Research in Criminology

Author : Jody Miller
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412856434
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Qualitative Research in Criminology written by Jody Miller and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the significant role qualitative research plays in expanding and refining our understandings of crime and justice. It features seventeen original essays that discuss the relationship between methodology and theory. The result is a theoretically engaged volume that explores the approaches of qualitative scholars in the collection and treatment of data in criminological scholarship. Among the key issues addressed in the volume are methodological rigor in qualitative research; movement between method, theory building, theoretical refinement and expansion; diversity of qualitative methodologies, from classic field research to contemporary innovations; and considerations of the future of qualitative criminological research. Qualitative research use has expanded rapidly in the last twenty years. This latest volume of Advances in Criminological Theory presents a cogent appraisal of qualitative criminology and the ways in which rigorous qualitative research contributes to theorizing about crime and justice.

The Oxford Handbook of Prisons and Imprisonment

Author : John D. Wooldredge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190888318
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Prisons and Imprisonment written by John D. Wooldredge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on prisons prior to the prison boom of the 1980s and 1990s focused mainly on inmate subcultures, inmate rights, and sociological interpretations of inmate and guard adaptations to their environment, with qualitative studies and ethnographic methods the norm. In recent years, research has expanded considerably to issues related to inmates' mental health, suicide, managing special types of offenders, risk assessment, and evidence-based treatment programs. The Oxford Handbook of Prisons and Imprisonment provides the only single source that bridges social scientific and behavioral perspectives, providing graduate students with a more comprehensive understanding of the topic, academics with a body of knowledge that will more effectively inform their own research, and practitioners with an overview of evidence-based best practices. Across thirty chapters, leading contributors offer new ideas, critical treatments of substantive topics with theoretical and policy implications, and comprehensive literature reviews that reflect cumulative knowledge on what works and what doesn't. The Handbook covers critical topics in the field, some of which include recent trends in imprisonment, prison gangs, inmate victimization, the use and impact of restrictive housing, unique problems faced by women in prison, special offender populations, risk assessment and treatment effectiveness, prisoner re-entry, and privatization. The Oxford Handbook of Prisons and Imprisonment offers a rich source of information on the current state of institutional corrections around the world, on issues facing both inmates and prison staff, and on how those issues may impede or facilitate the various goals of incarceration.

The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society

Author : Pyrooz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197618154
Total Pages : 921 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society written by Pyrooz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society is the premier reference book on gangs for practitioners, policymakers, students, and scholars. This carefully curated volume contains 43 chapters written by the leading experts in the field, who advance a central theme of "looking back, moving forward" by providing state-of-the-art reviews of the literature they created, shaped, and (re)defined. This international, interdisciplinary collective of authors provides readers with a rare tour of the field in its entirety, expertly navigating thorny debates and the at-times contentious history of gang research, while simultaneously synthesizing flourishing areas of study that advance the field into the 21st century. The volume is divided into six cohesive sections that reflect the diverse field of gang studies and capture the large-scale cultural, economic, political, and social changes occurring within the world of gangs in the last century; anticipating immense changes on the horizon. From definitions to history to theory to epistemology to technology to policy and practice, this unprecedented volume captures the most timely and important topics in the field. When readers finish this book, they will be more confident in what we know and do not know about gangs in our society"--