This anthology features twelve contemporary topical areas in corrections--chosen for the unique challenges which each presents to researchers, correctional practitioners, and prisoners. Each topic is systematically examined from three different perspectives--academic, practitioner, and prisoner--for a total of thirty-six readings. Students compare each perspective and determine how they diverge or how they are similar. The twelve topic areas are: * Institutional Crowding * Growth of Women Prisoners in Corrections * Elements of Correctional Rehabilitation and Treatment * HIV/AIDS in Corrections * Prison Gangs * Prison Violence * Security Housing Units: The Supermax Prison * Women Guarding Men * Correctional Privatization * Juveniles in Adult Corrections * Capital Punishment: The Ultimate Penalty * Release from Prison: Parole

Effects of Sentencing Changes
Institutional Crowding
Academic Perspective: Challenging Beliefs About Prison Crowding
Practitioner Perspective: A National Study of Correctional Administrator''s Views on Prison Crowding
Prisoner Perspective: Report From an Overcrowded Maze
Growth of Women PrisonersAcademic Perspective: Examining Trends in Female Incarceration
Practitioner Perspective: A Prison Superintendent''s Perspective on Women in Prison
Lord provides details on issues women face during incarceration, and how the criminal justice system is responding differently to women offenders
Ex-Prisoner Perspective: The Effect of the War on Drugs on Women Prisoners
Treatment of Offenders
Elements of Correctional Rehabilitation
Academic Perspective: The Principles of Effective Intervention With Offenders
Practitioner Perspective: Essential Elements of the Effective Therapeutic Community in the Correctional Institution: A Director''s Perspective
Prisoner Perspective: Through the Narrow Gate
Medical Treatment: HIV/AIDS in Corrections
Academic Perspective: HIV/AIDS and the Correctional System
Practitioner Perspective: Women Prisoners With HIV: A Letter From a Prison Doctor
Prisoner Perspective: Till Death do us Part: The Deadly Game of AIDS in Prison
Prison Security Issues
Prison Gangs
Practitioner Perspective: The Meaning of Prison Gang Tattoos
Prisoner Perspective: Prison Gangs: Racial Separatism as a Form of Social Control
Prison Violence
Academic Perspective: The Reproduction of Violence in U.S. Prisons
Practitioner Perspective: Violence and Incarceration: A Personal Observation
Prisoner Perspective: Realities of Fear,
Security Housing Units: Supermax Prisons
Academic Perspective: Infamous Punishment: The Psychological Consequences of Isolation
Practitioner Perspective: Attitudes of Prison Wardens Toward Administrative Segregation and Supermax Prisons
Prisoner Perspective: It''s a Form of Warfare: A Description of Pelican Bay State Prison
Women Guarding Men
Academic Perspective: Women Corrections Officers in Men''s Prisons: Acceptance and Perceived Job Performance
Practitioner Perspective: Working in a Male-Dominated World: Aggression and Women Correctional Officers
Ex-Prisoner Perspective: Lady Hacks and Gentlemen Convicts
Special Issues Facing Corrections
Correctional Privatization
Academic Perspective: Issues Concerning Private Prisons
Practitioner Perspective: A Comparison of Job Satisfaction Among Private and Public Prison Employees
Ex-Prisoner Perspective: Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other: Private Prisons and the Conditions of Confinement Debate
Juveniles in Adult Corrections
Academic Perspective: The Risks Juveniles Face in Adult Prisons
Practitioner Perspective: Juveniles in Adult Prisons: Problems and Prospects
Prisoner Perspective: Maximum-Security Offenders'' Attitudes Toward Placing Juveniles in Adult Prisons
On Death RowAcademic Perspective: Death Work: A Modern Execution Team
Practitioner Perspect
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