| Description |
xxii, 386 pages : illustrations. |
| Series |
Law and public policy
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Law and public policy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Humane values, psychology, and the pains of imprisonment -- Psychology and the history of imprisonment : justice and human nature -- Spreading pain : the punitive state and the state of the prisons -- Attribution error as modern prison policy : race, drugs, and the rage to punish -- Context matters : modern psychological theory and rational prison policy -- The social context of prison : surviving the modern fortress warehouse -- The situational pathologies of prison : maintaining control through force and intimidation -- Prisoners in extremis : the lives of the mentally ill and developmentally disabled in prison -- Law and the disregard of context : devolving standards of decency in prison -- Limiting unnecessary prison pain : psychological theory and humane prison policy -- Concluding thoughts on the pains of imprisonment. |
| Subject |
Imprisonment -- United States.
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Imprisonment. |
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United States. |
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Imprisonment -- Psychological aspects.
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Imprisonment -- Psychological aspects. |
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Prisons -- United States.
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Prisons. |
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Punishment -- United States.
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Punishment. |
| ISBN |
1591473179 |
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