| Description |
xviii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The connection between crime and incarceration / Alfred Blumstein -- Today's violence / Khalid R. Pitts -- Corrections without correction / Stephen J. Ingley -- Prisoner rehabilitation : feeling better but getting worse? / Colleen R. McLaughlin -- Criminalizing addictions / Roger H. Peters -- Make 'em break rocks / Kenneth L. McGinnis -- Legislating barriers to effective solutions : an indelicate tool for a complex problem / William J. Rold -- The racial dynamics of imprisonment / Marc Mauer -- The care and feeding of the correctional-industrial complex / Elizabeth Alexander --Examining "justice" in the juvenile system / Mark Soler -- Adult abdication : the misrepresentation of juvenile crime / Bernardine Dohrn -- The politics of jailing / Juan Williams -- Inappropriate prison populations / B. Jaye Anno -- The "epidemic" and "cultural legends" of Black male incarceration : the socialization of African American children to a life of incarceration / Tony L. Whitehead -- Adult time for adult crime : a sound bite, not a sound policy / Miriam A. Rollin -- Mass incarceration : a public health failure / Robert L. Cohen -- Detention of migrants / Fernando Chang-Muy --Mental illness behind bars / Andrea Weisman -- Sanctioned violence in American prisons / Steve J. Martin -- Even dogs confined to cages for long periods of time go berserk / Corey Weinstein -- Body and soul : the trauma of prison rape / Joanne Mariner -- Feeding a public health epidemic / John P. May -- Violence and incarceration : a personal observation / JoAnne Page -- The stigma of a criminal history record in the labor market / Shawn D. Bushway -- A prisoner's journey / Randy Blackburn -- A lesson from another country / Kim Marie Thorburn -- Death penalty : the ultimate violence / Steven S. Spencer. |
| Subject |
Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States.
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation. |
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United States. |
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Imprisonment -- United States.
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Imprisonment. |
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Violence -- United States.
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Violence. |
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Prisoners -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Prisoners. |
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Social conditions. |
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Prison psychology.
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Prison psychology. |
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Recidivism -- United States.
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Recidivism. |
| Added Author |
May, John P.
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Pitts, Khalid R.
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| ISBN |
0761914609 paperback acid-free paper |
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0761914595 acid-free paper |
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