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9780870847783

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  • ISBN13:

    9780870847783

  • ISBN10:

    0870847783

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-01-01
  • Publisher: Anderson Pub Co
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Table of Contents

Preface v
Acknowledgments vii
Part I INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN CORRECTIONS 1(58)
Issues in Perspective 1850/1996
2(3)
The Setting
5(48)
Selected Bibliography
53(6)
Part II CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS 59(92)
Issues in Perspective 1922/1996
60(3)
Should Prisons Exist?
63(62)
The Evidence in Favor of Prisons
95(14)
Richard A. Wright
The Greatest Correctional Myth: Winning the War on Crime Through Incarceration
109(16)
Joseph W. Rogers
Prisonization and Crowding
125(18)
Pathology of Imprisonment
133(6)
Philip G. Zimbardo
A Prisoner Responds to the Zimbardo Experiment
139(4)
L. William Woodward
Selected Bibliography
143(8)
Part III COMMUNITY SUPERVISION 151(52)
Issues in Perspective 1890/1995
152(3)
Serve or Surveil?
155(42)
Guiding Philosophies for Probation in the 21st Century
173(14)
Richard Sluder
Allen D. Sapp
Denny C. Langston
Operating Principles in Community Supervision
187(10)
Jennifer L. Hartman
Selected Bibliography
197(6)
Part IV TREATMENT FOR THE OFFENDER 203(50)
Issues in Perspective 1897/1995
204(3)
Does Treatment Work?
207(42)
Meta-Analysis and the Rehabilitation of Punishment
221(16)
Charles H. Logan
Gerald G. Gaes
Correctional Effectiveness: The High Cost of Ignoring Success
237(12)
Patricia Van Voorhis
Selected Bibliography
249(4)
Part V CONTINUING ISSUES AND CHANGE 253(92)
Continuing Issues
255(26)
The Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment
267(14)
Robert M. Bohm
The Impact of Technology on Corrections
281(12)
Intermediate Sanctions and Electronic Monitoring: History, Innovations and Considerations for the Field
283(10)
James David Ballard
Privatization
293(18)
Private Prisons in Perspective
295(16)
David Shichor
Boot Camps
311(20)
A Critical Look at the Idea of Boot Camp as a Correctional Reform
313(18)
Merry Morash
Lila Rucker
Health Care
331(14)
Health Care Issues in Correctional Institutions
333(12)
Mark Blumberg
Carla Mahaffey-Sapp
Conclusions 345(2)
Selected Bibliography 347(4)
Subject Index 351(4)
Name Index 355

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