Incarcerating Criminals
Prisons and Jails in Social and Organizational Context
ISBN13: 9780195105414ISBN10: 0195105419
Paperback, 352 pages
Mar 1998,
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Table of Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1. THE ROLE OF PUNISHMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INCARCERATION
The Disappearance of Public Executions
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The Historical Origins of the Sanction of Imprisonment for Serious Crime
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The Invention of the Penitentiary
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Complete and Austere Institutions
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Prisons for Women, 1790-1980
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CHAPTER 2. THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF INCARCERATION
The Legacy and Future of Corrections Litigation
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Prisons: The Cruel and Unusual Punishment Controversy
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Judicial Reform and Prisoner Control: The Impact of Ruiz v. Estelle on a Texas Penitentiary
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Judicial Intervention: Lessons from the Past
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CHAPTER 3. CONTEMPORARY CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS AS PEOPLE PROCESSING ORGANIZATIONS
A Prison Superintendent's Perspective on Women in Prison
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The Special Management Inmate
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Prison Violence: A Scottish Perspective
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Changes in Prison Culture: Prison Gangs and the Case of the "Pepsi Generation"
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The Brother's Keeper: A Review of the Literature on Correctional Officers
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Organizational Barriers to Women Working as Corrections Officers in Men's Prisons
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The Prison as a Constitutional Government
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CHAPTER 4. CONTEMPORARY PRISONS AS PROCESS: CORRECTIONAL INTERVENTION
HIV in Prisons
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AIDS Recommendations and Prisons in Australia
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Tuberculosis in Correctional Facilities
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Classification for Control in Jails and Prisons
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Effective Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems: What Do We Know?
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A Full Employment Policy for Prisons in the United States: Some Arguments, Estimates, and Implications
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Literacy Training and Reintegration of Offenders
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Effective Correctional Programming: What Empirical Research Tells Us and What It Doesn't
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Discipline
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CHAPTER 5 THE MODERN JAIL
Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 1996
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The Jail
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Who Is in Jail? An Examination of the Rabble Hypothesis
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The Jail and the Community
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CHAPTER 6. FUTURE ISSUES AND TRENDS
Criminal Justice Performance Measures for Prisons
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Public Imprisonment by Private Means: The Re-emergence of Private Prisons and Jails in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia
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Racial Disproportion in U.S. Prisons
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What Not to Do About Crime -- The American Society of Criminology 1994 Presidential Address
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The Bull Market in Corrections
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The Future of the Penitentiary
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