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It's about Time : America's Imprisonment Binge
by IRWIN/AUSTINEdition:
1st
ISBN13:
9780534219062
ISBN10:
0534219063
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
10/14/1993
Publisher(s):
Wadsworth Publishing
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It's about Time : America's Imprisonment Binge
It's about Time : America's Imprisonment Binge
Summary
IT'S ABOUT TIME provides a compelling argument, based on extensive research, illustrating how the U.S. attempts to lower crime by using our correctional system as the primary solution. The book includes personal accounts from prisoners to illustrate the brutal aspects of prison life and the intent of the U.S. to create a "prison industrial complex." This book often exposes students for the first time to varying points of view of the corrections system. The authors, one of whom served 10 years in prison and is now a noted criminologist in the field, present the material in a powerful but compassionate manner. The book's strong research base and accessible style make it a popular choice for a wide variety of courses.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Our Imprisonment Binge | p. 1 |
| America's Growing Correctional Industrial Complex | p. 1 |
| The Politics of the Fear of Crime | p. 5 |
| America's History of Warehousing Prisoners | p. 9 |
| What Has Been Accomplished by the Imprisonment Binge? | p. 12 |
| The Costs of the Imprisonment Binge | p. 13 |
| Notes | p. 15 |
| Who Goes to Prison? | p. 17 |
| Public Misperceptions About Who Goes to Prison | p. 17 |
| National Trends on Prison Admissions | p. 19 |
| A Closer Look at Who Goes to Prison | p. 22 |
| How Serious Are Their Crimes? | p. 25 |
| Patterns of Crime | p. 31 |
| Habitual Offenders | p. 38 |
| Conclusions | p. 46 |
| Notes | p. 47 |
| The Imprisonment of Children and Women | p. 50 |
| The Children's Imprisonment Binge | p. 50 |
| The Imprisonment Binge of Women | p. 57 |
| Notes | p. 62 |
| The Private Prison Binge | p. 64 |
| Background | p. 64 |
| Privatization of Corrections: A Historical Overview | p. 67 |
| The Debate | p. 71 |
| A Closer Look at State Prison Privatization | p. 77 |
| The Future of Privatization | p. 85 |
| Notes | p. 86 |
| Doing Time | p. 90 |
| Warehousing Prisoners | p. 90 |
| The Development of the Contemporary Prison | p. 91 |
| The Bureaucratic Prison | p. 97 |
| The Prisoner Experience | p. 100 |
| Coping with Violence | p. 108 |
| Crippled | p. 109 |
| Alienated | p. 111 |
| Notes | p. 112 |
| Super Max | p. 117 |
| What Is Super Max? | p. 117 |
| History of Administrative Segregation | p. 119 |
| The Official Program | p. 120 |
| The Reality of Lockup | p. 121 |
| Turmoil in Lockup | p. 121 |
| New Maximum-Security Prisons | p. 125 |
| A Closer Look at a Contemporary Lockup Unit: The Texas Administrative Segregation Population | p. 129 |
| The Consequences of Lockup | p. 131 |
| Notes | p. 137 |
| Release | p. 139 |
| The Growing Number of Prison Releases | p. 139 |
| The Rising Tide of Parole Failures | p. 143 |
| Obstacles to Making It After Release | p. 146 |
| Those Who Make It | p. 151 |
| Notes | p. 157 |
| The Correctional Treatment Industrial Complex | p. 160 |
| Introduction | p. 160 |
| Factors Related to Criminal Behavior | p. 162 |
| What Does Work? | p. 165 |
| Boot Camps | p. 167 |
| Prison Drug Treatment | p. 169 |
| Summary | p. 179 |
| Notes | p. 180 |
| The Three Strikes and You're Out Movement | p. 184 |
| Introduction | p. 184 |
| Diversity Among the States | p. 186 |
| Comparison of the New Laws with Preexisting Sentencing Provisions | p. 191 |
| Description and Legislative History of the California Law | p. 195 |
| Impact of California's Law on the Courts | p. 197 |
| Variation by Counties in the Application of the Law | p. 201 |
| Impact on State Prison Systems | p. 202 |
| Who Are the Strikers? | p. 204 |
| Impact on Correctional Costs in California | p. 208 |
| Impact on Crime Rates Within California | p. 210 |
| Impact on Crime Rates Among the States | p. 212 |
| Summary | p. 213 |
| Notes | p. 214 |
| It's About Time | p. 219 |
| The Financial Cost | p. 220 |
| The "Incarceration Reduces Crime" Debate | p. 222 |
| Voodoo Criminology | p. 236 |
| America's Farm System for Criminals | p. 239 |
| Our Prison System in the Twenty-First Century | p. 240 |
| It's About Time | p. 244 |
| Notes | p. 249 |
| Index | p. 253 |
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