Correctional contexts: contemporary and classical readings

INDICE: *=New to this edition; Part I: History and Purpose of Punishment and Imprisonment; 1. The Spectacle of Suffering, Pieter C. Spierenburg; 2. The Discovery of the Asylum, David J. Rothman; 3. A Look at Prison History, Thorsten Sellin; 4. Partial Justice: Women, Prisons, and Social Control, Nicole Hahn Rafter; * 5. Sentencing in the United States, Lawrence F. Travis III; 6. Assessing the Penal Harm Movement, Francis T. Cullen; Part II: Living and Working in Prison; 7. Characteristics of Total Institutions, Erving Goffman; 8. The Prison Community, Donald Clemmer; * 9. In Search of the Convict Code, Victor Hassine; * 10. Varieties of Punishment, Jack Abbott; 11. Prisons in Turmoil, John Irwin; 12. Comparing the Quality of Confinement and Cost-Effectiveness of PublicVersus Private Prisons: What We Know, Why We Do Not Know More, and Where to Go From Here, Dina Perrone and Travis Pratt; 13. Supermax Prisons: Panacea or Desperation?, Rodney J. Henningsen, W. Wesley Johnson, and Terry Wells; * 14. Relationships Between Inmates and Guards, Victor Hassine; * 15. A Block, Ted Conover; Part III: Prison Policy and Inmate Rights; * 16. The Past and Future ofU.S. Prison Policy, Craig Haney and Philip Zimbardo; * 17. Torture at Abu Ghraib, Seymour M. Hersh; * 18. The Supreme Court and Prisoners' Rights, Jack E. Call; Part IV: Institutional Programming and Treatment; 19. What Works? Questions and Answers About Prison Reform, Robert Martinson; * 20. The Principles ofEffective Correctional Programs, Don A. Andrews; 21. Substance Abuse in U.S. Prisons, Roger Peters and Marc L. Steinberg; * 22. Recidivism of Sex Offenders, Tim Bynum, Madeline Carter, Scott Matson, and Charles Onley; 23. What Works for Female Offenders: A Meta-Analytic Review, Craig Dowden and Don A. Andrews;24. Identifying and Treating the Mentally Disordered Prison Inmate, Eliot Hartstone, Henry J. Steadman, Pamela Clark Robbins, and John Monahan; 25. A Quantitative Review and Description of Corrections-Based Education, Vocation, and Work Programs, David B. Wilson, Catherine A. Gallagher, Mark B. Coggeshall, andDoris L. MacKenzie; * 26. Beyond Correctional Quackery: Professionalism and the Possibility of Effective Treatment, Edward J. Latessa, Francis T. Cullen, and Paul Gendreau; Part V: Release from Prison and Parole; * 27. Reentry Reconsidered: A New Look at an Old Question, Jeremy Travis and Joan Petersilia; 28. Halfway Houses (Updated), Edward J. Latessa, Lawrence F. Travis III, and Christopher T. Lowenkamp; * 29. Welcome Home? Examining the 'Reentry Court' Conceptfrom a Strengths-Based Perspective, Shadd Maruna and Thomas P. LeBel; * 30. Effective Services for Parolees with Mental Illnesses, Arthur J. Lurigio; Part VI: New Directions; 31. Three Strikes and You're Out: The Political SentencingGame, Peter J. Benekos and Alida V. Merlo; 32. 'Infamous Punishment': T

• ISBN: 978-0-19-533057-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 514
• Fecha Publicación: 25/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés