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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Our Imprisonment Binge | |
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| America's Growing Correctional Industrial Complex | |
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| The Politics of the Fear of Crime | |
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| America's History of Warehousing Prisoners | |
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| What Has Been Accomplished by the Imprisonment Binge? | |
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| The Costs of the Imprisonment Binge | |
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| Notes | |
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| Who Goes to Prison? | |
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| Public Misperceptions About Who Goes to Prison | |
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| National Trends on Prison Admissions | |
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| A Closer Look at Who Goes to Prison | |
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| How Serious Are Their Crimes? | |
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| Patterns of Crime | |
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| Habitual Offenders | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Imprisonment of Children and Women | |
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| The Children's Imprisonment Binge | |
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| The Imprisonment Binge of Women | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Private Prison Binge | |
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| Background | |
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| Privatization of Corrections: A Historical Overview | |
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| The Debate | |
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| A Closer Look at State Prison Privatization | |
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| The Future of Privatization | |
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| Notes | |
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| Doing Time | |
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| Warehousing Prisoners | |
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| The Development of the Contemporary Prison | |
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| The Bureaucratic Prison | |
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| The Prisoner Experience | |
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| Coping with Violence | |
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| Crippled | |
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| Alienated | |
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| Notes | |
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| Super Max | |
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| What Is Super Max? | |
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| History of Administrative Segregation | |
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| The Official Program | |
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| The Reality of Lockup | |
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| Turmoil in Lockup | |
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| New Maximum-Security Prisons | |
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| A Closer Look at a Contemporary Lockup Unit: The Texas Administrative Segregation Population | |
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| The Consequences of Lockup | |
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| Notes | |
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| Release | |
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| The Growing Number of Prison Releases | |
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| The Rising Tide of Parole Failures | |
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| Obstacles to Making It After Release | |
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| Those Who Make It | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Correctional Treatment Industrial Complex | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Factors Related to Criminal Behavior | |
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| What Does Work? | |
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| Boot Camps | |
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| Prison Drug Treatment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Three Strikes and You're Out Movement | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Diversity Among the States | |
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| Comparison of the New Laws with Preexisting Sentencing Provisions | |
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| Description and Legislative History of the California Law | |
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| Impact of California's Law on the Courts | |
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| Variation by Counties in the Application of the Law | |
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| Impact on State Prison Systems | |
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| Who Are the Strikers? | |
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| Impact on Correctional Costs in California | |
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| Impact on Crime Rates Within California | |
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| Impact on Crime Rates Among the States | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| It's About Time | |
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| The Financial Cost | |
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| The "Incarceration Reduces Crime" Debate | |
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| Voodoo Criminology | |
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| America's Farm System for Criminals | |
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| Our Prison System in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| It's About Time | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |