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Exploring Corrections A Book of Readings

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ISBN-10: 0205327761

ISBN-13: 9780205327768

Edition: 2002

Authors: Tara Gray

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List price: $106.60
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
About the Contributors
Who Gets Convicted and Why?
America's Imprisonment Binge: An Overview of the Book by John Irwin and James Austin
The Forgotten Offender: Women in Prison
Corrections: A Picture in Black and White
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: An Overview of the Book by Jeffrey Reiman
Living and Working in Prisons and Jails
The Persistent Problems Plaguing Modern Jails
Life on the Inside: The Jailers
Working as a Prison Guard
Guards Imprisoned: An Overview of the Book by Lucien X. Lombardo
Living in a Juvenile Prison
Life in the Belly of the Beast
The Hole: Solitary Confinement
Living and Working on Death Row
Lethal Lottery
Critical Problems of Women in Prison
Stopping Abuse in Prison
Prison Administration
Why Inmate Participation is Better When Managing Prisons
Why More Control is Better When Governing Prisons
Unit Management in Prisons and Jails: An Overview of the Book by Robert Levinson
Participatory Models
The Missing "X-Factor": Trust
Group Norms in a Reform School Without Locks and Bars: An Overview of the Book by Grant R. Grissom and William L. Dubnov
Readaptation: Work and Family in a Mexican Prison Village
Control Mechanisms
The Need for More Control in the Society of Captives
How to Increase the Rate of Violence--And Why
"Chemical Shackles" as a Control Mechanism
Changes in Prison Culture: Prison Gangs and the Case of the "Pepsi Generation"
Control Units as a Control Mechanism
Do Prisons Work? Does Rehabilitation Work?
A Defense of Prisons
Prisons Don't Work
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation Can Work
Do Alternatives To Prison Work?
Evaluating Correctional Boot Camp Programs: Issues and Concerns
Working in a Boot Camp
Working as a Federal Probation Officer
Intensive Probation Supervision
Shaming Offenders
Community Service for Offenders
Restitution Programs
Restorative Justice and Mediation
Credits
Index