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Author : Neal Shover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Analyzing American Corrections written by Neal Shover and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosemary L. Gido
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Turnstile Justice written by Rosemary L. Gido and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specialists in criminal justice are the authors and will be the audience for this group of essays on the tougher questions raised by the present American corrections system. The topics discussed include jailed fathers, prison and jail boot camps, the effect of street gangs on juvenile correctional facilities, a participant observer's insights on adult prison violence, INS detention centers and allegations of human rights abuses, and community response to new jail construction. Gido teaches criminal justice at Indiana U. of Pennsylvania; Alleman, deceased, taught at The Pennsylvania State U. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Barry A. Krisberg
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1544318251
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)
Download or read book American Corrections written by Barry A. Krisberg and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is a thorough and focused work on American corrections providing a solid opportunity for students to learn not only how the correctional system works but also to understand its ever increasing complexities." —Dorie Astle, Southwestern Oklahoma State University American Corrections, Second Edition offers students a contemporary, issues-oriented introduction that covers every aspect of corrections, prompting students to think critically about complex issues that are affecting the current U.S. correctional system. Incorporating the most recent theory, research, and data available, the Second Edition encourages students to explore the most interesting and progressive developments in correctional policy and practice. Authors Barry A. Krisberg, Susan Marchionna, and Christopher J. Hartney draw from years of professional experience to give students a practical knowledge of corrections, as well as provide a framework for thoughtful analysis into what is plaguing the American correctional system and a realistic exploration of the solutions that could make a difference. SAGE Premium Video Included in the interactive eBook! Corrections News Clips bring extra coverage of current events into the book, connecting brief 2 to 4 minute news clips to core chapter content. Interactive eBook Includes access to SAGE Premium Video and other multimedia tools. SAGE coursepacks FREE! Easily import our quality instructor and student resource content into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. SAGE edge FREE online resources for students that make learning easier.
Author : David Musick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317616820
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book American Prisons written by David Musick and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imprisonment has become big business in the United States. Using a "history of ideas" approach, this book examines the cultural underpinnings of prisons in the United States and explores how shared ideas about imprisonment evolve into a complex, loosely connected nationwide system of prisons that keeps enough persons to populate a small nation behind bars, razor wire and electrified fences. Tracing both the history of the prison and the very idea of imprisonment in the United States, this book provides students with a critical overview of American prisons and considers their past, their present and directions for the future. Topics covered include: • a history of imprisonment in America from 1600 to the present day; • the twentieth-century prison building binge; • the relationship between U.S. prisons and the private sector; • a critical account of capital punishment; • less-visible prison minorities, including women, children and the elderly; and • sex, violence and disease in prison. This comprehensive book is essential reading for advanced courses on corrections and correctional management and offers a compelling and provocative analysis of the realities of American penal culture from past to present. It is perfect reading for students of criminal justice, corrections, penology and the sociology of punishment.
Author : Ronald C. James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book The Injustice of Criminal Justice written by Ronald C. James and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis, I analyze the Criminal Justice system in America through the lens of human rights. I argue that our current system which predominantly emphasizes retribution and the removal of criminals from society is a violation of human rights. This argument is divided into three parts. In the first part, I give a brief description of the development of corrections in America. In the second part, I present evidence for the role that extralegal factors play in disproportionate sentencing and even the decision on what is considered "criminal" activity in the first place. In the final section, I present a particular view of human rights founded on social recognition. This view lays out a vision of human dignity that is vulnerable to devastation and humiliation by others that we engage with socially at every moment depending on whether or not they decide to recognize us as human beings. This argument is ultimately aimed at helping us understand the failure of the criminal justice system in the United States and how the social devaluation of those labeled criminal contributes to this process.
Author : Anne S. Douds
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498530419
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Rethinking America’s Correctional Policies written by Anne S. Douds and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commonsense Choices from Uncommon Voices:Rethinking America’s Correctional Policies brings together the experiences of men who served time in prison with contemporary research on correctional policy. This work combines a voyeuristic desire to observe “evil” and the consequences of the system of punishment, with detached consideration of what those stories can tell us about who we are as a nation and how we treat those who have betrayed the social trust. The authors simultaneously examine first-person accounts of inmate experiences with the correctional system and what actually, works, in operation, to promote the rehabilitative and restorative models of justice so many of our policymakers espouse. Each chapter opens with a vignette, a recollection of an event or series of events, about an inmate’s experience during the various phases of correctional processing. These first-hand accounts have been collected from men who served time in prison. These men’s stories are examined in their own right, then extrapolated to a broader analysis of the underlying social and policy issues to which that vignette speaks. All chapters follow the same structure: (a) opening vignette about a former inmate; (b) analysis, which includes (i) identification of the underlying issue; (ii) reflection; and (iii) extrapolation to a larger policy issue; and (c) recommendations from the field for enacting practice and crafting policy more responsive to the identified issue.
Author : Lauren-Brooke Eisen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542313
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Inside Private Prisons written by Lauren-Brooke Eisen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states and federal corrections. Private prisons are criticized for making money off mass incarceration—to the tune of $5 billion in annual revenue. Based on Lauren-Brooke Eisen’s work as a prosecutor, journalist, and attorney at policy think tanks, Inside Private Prisons blends investigative reportage and quantitative and historical research to analyze privatized corrections in America. From divestment campaigns to boardrooms to private immigration-detention centers across the Southwest, Eisen examines private prisons through the eyes of inmates, their families, correctional staff, policymakers, activists, Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees, undocumented immigrants, and the executives of America’s largest private prison corporations. Private prisons have become ground zero in the anti-mass-incarceration movement. Universities have divested from these companies, political candidates hesitate to accept their campaign donations, and the Department of Justice tried to phase out its contracts with them. On the other side, impoverished rural towns often try to lure the for-profit prison industry to build facilities and create new jobs. Neither an endorsement or a demonization, Inside Private Prisons details the complicated and perverse incentives rooted in the industry, from mandatory bed occupancy to vested interests in mass incarceration. If private prisons are here to stay, how can we fix them? This book is a blueprint for policymakers to reform practices and for concerned citizens to understand our changing carceral landscape.
Author : Martin P. Sellers
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838634929
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The History and Politics of Private Prisons written by Martin P. Sellers and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of The History and Politics of Private Prisons in America is to examine the history of the movement, establish how politics affects it, and provide practitioners, politicians, academics, and students with alternative thinking about the value of privatizing prison management. In the first two chapters, author Martin P. Sellers provides a brief history of incarceration and surveys the current privatization movement in the United States, identifying its roots in economics, politics, and administration. Chapter 3 identifies the many political, economic, social, and administrative arguments against privatization and attempts to explain how these arguments developed. In chapter 4, Sellers analyzes three private prisons, comparing them to three public prisons, to determine which group is more efficient at providing prison services, particularly health and education services.
Author : Marilyn McShane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136523154
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy and Practice of Corrections written by Marilyn McShane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1997, The Philosophy and Practice of Corrections is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology & Social Policy.
Author : Todd R. Clear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780534189723
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (897 download)
Download or read book American Corrections written by Todd R. Clear and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introductory text, Clear and Cole offer the idea of the correctional system in order to promote and enhance understanding of the complexity and variety of corrections. The concept of corrections as a TTsystemTT of interconnected organizations is a theme carried throughout the book. Clear and Cole describe the correctional system as being comprised of a composite of large and small organizations that is administered by various levels of government (national, state, county, local), seeking to satisfy complex and sometimes competing goals through the efforts of professional and nonprofessional employees who are put into contact with another and in direct authority over offenders. The authors consistently include the contributions of several disciplines (such as history, law, psychology, political science, and sociology) in a clear and straightforward manner.
Author : Lois M. Davis
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833081322
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education written by Lois M. Davis and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After conducting a comprehensive literature search, the authors undertook a meta-analysis to examine the association between correctional education and reductions in recidivism, improvements in employment after release from prison, and other outcomes. The study finds that receiving correctional education while incarcerated reduces inmates' risk of recidivating and may improve their odds of obtaining employment after release from prison.
Author : Matt DeLisi
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1449645402
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)
Download or read book American Corrections written by Matt DeLisi and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for corrections officers is projected to increase by 16% by 2016 (Bureau of Labor Statistics). This is great news for students completing their criminal justice or criminology degrees as there will be ample employment opportunity. Drs. DeLisi and Conis provide their unparalleled research expertise/productivity and nearly 40 years of combined criminal justice practitioner experience to make American Corrections: Theory, Research, Policy, and Practice, Second Edition the ideal introductory text for the corrections course. They use a straightforward writing style that is scholarly, engaging, and fun. Updated throughout, it contains both classic and cutting-edge contemporary data on correctional topics drawing from the fields of criminology, criminal justice, sociology, psychology, government, and public policy.The text is broken down into four parts, starting with an overview of corrections, including the history and also the philosophy of corrections. It progresses to discuss the management of offender risk and covers the sentencing, diversion, and pretrial treatment of offenders. Part III delves into the prison system and includes chapters on inmate behavior, prison organization, parole, and reentry of the offender in to society. This comprehensive introduction wraps up with special topics in corrections, including juveniles, women, and capital punishment and civil committment.Key Features of the Revised Second Edition:-Now available in paperback!-Revised to be more sociologically-focused, this Second Edition includes boxes throughout highlighting the effects on community.-Provides an increased focus on gender, race, and immigration issues.-Contains more content discussing the philosophy of corrections, encouraging your students to see the big-picture and think critically of the subject.-Every new copy includes an access code to the accompanying student companion website featuring a variety of interactive study aids.Exciting new content added to the Second Edition: -New section on the correctional system and American society-New section on the fiscal costs of the correctional system and ways that correctional policies can save costs while reducing crime-New section on historical developments in corrections-New section on juveniles and the life imprisonment without parole sanction-Expanded correctional case law-New section on teen courts-New section on federal pretrial services-New section on crisis intervention teams -New section on cognitive behavioral therapy -New section on mental health probation-New section on effective correctional policies-New section on back-end sentencing and parole-New section on law enforcement reentry initiatives and reentry courts-New section on Graham v. Florida (2010)-New section on juvenile drug courts-Expanded discussion on women and reentry-New discussion on clemency and elected executions -Updated box features including 13 new box features-Thoroughly updated correctional data-Thoroughly updated literature with more than 300 new references
Author : G. Larry Mays
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118537300
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Essentials of Corrections written by G. Larry Mays and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of this leading “essentials” textbook on corrections has been fully revised and updated to include new international comparative data, and a fresh chapter on prison inmates with special needs. Unrivalled in scope, it offers undergraduates a concise but comprehensive introduction to the subject. Includes textual materials and assignments formulated to encourage students’ critical thinking skills Chapters feature text boxes on key points of correctional theory and on international correctional practice Presented in full color throughout — including extensive photos and graphics Includes stand-alone chapters on careers in corrections, gender and ethnicity issues, and likely future developments in corrections Features invaluable historical context on the evolution of correctional theory and practice Offers a new, comprehensive online Student Study Guide and thoroughly updated and expanded ancillary materials
Author : Barry Krisberg
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483354008
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)
Download or read book American Corrections written by Barry Krisberg and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Corrections: Concepts and Controversies, by Barry Krisberg, Susan Marchionna, and Chris Hartney, presents an incisive view of every aspect of corrections (including jails, probation, sentencing, prisons, and parole), prompting students to think critically about the complex issues involved in responding to the current crisis in the U.S. correctional system. Incorporating theory, research, and the most recent available data, the book takes a contemporary and issues-oriented approach as it explores the most interesting and progressive developments in correctional policy and practice. Students will come away with practical knowledge, as well as a framework for thoughtful analysis of a subject that can seem mysterious or impenetrable. In addition, the book covers subjects many corrections texts treat only minimally, including women in corrections, the death penalty, and special populations. Perhaps most importantly, the book offers a point of view on what is plaguing the American correctional system and a realistic look at the solutions that offer real promise.
Author : Michael Stevenson Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Education for Inmates written by Michael Stevenson Jones and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul K. Clare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780205054657
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (546 download)
Download or read book Introduction to American Corrections written by Paul K. Clare and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry E. Allen
Publisher : Macmillan College
ISBN 13 : 9780023017414
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Corrections in America written by Harry E. Allen and published by Macmillan College. This book was released on 1995 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains review questions & statistical tables & graphs.
