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9781412937733

Corrections : A Text/Reader

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    9781412937733

  • ISBN10:

    1412937736

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-12-17
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

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Summary

This is a core text//reader for undergraduate and graduate corrections courses. It can serve either as a supplement to a core textbook or as a stand-alone course text. Each chapter begins with 15 pages of text that includes photos, figures and tables and is followed by carefully selected articles authored by leading scholars in the field.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Book: The Philosophical and Ideological Underpinnings of Corrections
What Is Corrections?
The Origins of Punishment
A Short History of Punishment
The Emergence of the Classical School
The Emergence of Positivism: Should Punishment Fit the Offender or the Offense?
The Objectives of Punishment
Is the United States Soft on Crime?
Summary, Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Internet Sites
History of American Corrections
Introduction: Not Much Is New Under the Corrections Sun
Themes: Truths That Underlie Correctional Practice
Summary: Knowing Where We Have Been Helps Us Determine Where We Should Go
Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Internet Sites
Readings
An Historical Outline of the Penitentiary System
The World's Most Influential Prison: Success or Failure?
"Much and Unfortunately Neglected": Women in Early Mid-Nineteenth-Century Prisons
The Corrections Experience for Offenders
Introduction
Jails and Prisons
The Promise of Reform
Total Institutions, Importation, Prizonization, and the Pains of Imprisonment
The Correctional Subculture
Mature Coping
How Corrections Is Experienced Depends
Summary, Key Terms, Internet Sites
How to Read a Research Article
Readings
Ultramasculine Prison Environments and Inmates' Adjustment: It's Time to Move Beyond the "Boys Will Be Boys" Paradigm
Friend or Foe? Race, Age, and Inmate Perceptions of Inmate-Staff Relations
A Convict Perspective on the Classification of Prisoners
Supermax Prisons: Their Rise, Current Practices, and Effect on Inmates
The Corrections Experience for Staff
Introduction: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
How Corrections Could Become More Professional
Some Truths About Corrections and Correctional Work
Organizational and Individual Level Factors that Affect the Correctional Workplace
Summary, Key Terms, Internet Sites
Readings
Staff Management in Correctional Institutions: Comparing Dilulio's "Control Model" and "Employee Investment Model" Outcomes in Five Jails
Affirmative Action and the "Level Playing Field": Comparing Perceptions of Own and Minority Job Advancement Opportunities
Fatal Attraction: An Analysis of Employee Boundary Violations in a Southern Prison System, 1995-1998
Predicting Work-Related Stress in Correctional Officers: A Meta-Analysis
Legal Issues in Corrections
Introduction
Historical Background: Prisoners as Slaves of the State
The Beginning of Prisoners' Rights
First Amendment
Fourth Amendment
Eighth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
The Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders
A Return to a Modified Hands-Off Doctrine
Legal Issues in Probation and Parole
The Death Penalty: Legal Challenges to the Ultimate Sanction
Summary, Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Internet Sites
Readings
Civil Liability Against Prison Officials for Inmate-on-Inmate Assault: Where Are We and Where Have We Been?
Constitutional Issues in Cross-Gender Searches and Visual Observation of Nude Inmates by Opposite-Sex Officers: A Battle Between and Within the Sexes
Who Has the Body? The Paths to Habeas Corpus Reform
Sex Offender Laws: Can Treatment, Punishment, Incapacitation, and Public Safety Be Reconciled?
Treatment Programming and Rehabilitation Research
Introduction
The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation Under the Justice Model: The Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
Substance Abuse
Therapeutic Communities
Pharmacological Treatment
Sex Offenders and Their Treatment
The Responsivity Principle and Treatment
Mentally Ill Offenders
Summary, Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Internet Sites
Readings
Comparing Inmate Perceptions of Two Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Programs
The Effects of Behavioral/Cognitive-Behavioral Programs on Recidivism
Five-Year Outcomes of Therapeutic Community Treatment of Drug-Involved Offenders After Release From Prison
The Recent Past and Near Future of Risk and/or Needs Assessment
Probation and Community Corrections
Introduction
The Origins of Probation
Why Do We Need Community Corrections?
The Decreasing Probation-Inmate Ratio
The Probation or Prison Decision
Community Corrections Assessment Tools
Probation Officer Stress
Engaging the Community to Prevent Recidivism
Intermediate Sanctions
Intensive Supervision Probation
Work Release
Shock Probation/Parole and Boot Camps
Victim-Offender Reconciliation Programs (VORPs)
Summary, Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Internet Sites
Readings
Community Supervision, Prosocial Activities, and Recidivism
Opening the Manager's Door: State Probation Officer Stress and Perceptions of Participation in Workplace Decision Making
The "Effectiveness" of Differential Supervision
Examining the Effectiveness of Boot Camps: A Randomized Experiment With a Long-Term Follow Up
Parole and Prisoner Reentry
Introduction
What Is Parole?
Brief History of Parole
The Modern Parole System
What Goes in Must Come Out: Prisoner Reentry
The Impact of Imprisonment and Reentry on Communities
What Is Reentry, and What Makes for a Successful One?
Determining Parole "Success"
Halfway Houses
House Arrest, Electronic Monitoring, and Global Positioning Systems
Concluding Remarks on Reentry and Recidivism
Summary, Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Internet Sites
Readings
Prisoner Reentry: What Works, What Does Not, and What Is Promising
Effectiveness of Community-Based Correctional Programs: A Case Study
The Electronic Monitoring of Offenders Released From Jail or Prison: Safety, Control, and Comparisons to the Incarceration Experience
Incarceration and the Community:The Problem of Removing and Returning Offenders
Jails
Introduction
Overcrowding
Jail Inmates
Suicides and Sexual Violence in Jails
Innovations in Jails: New Generation or Podular Direct-Supervision Jails, Community Jails, Coequal Staffing, Reentry Programs for Jails
Equal Staffing, Reentry Programs for Jails
Jail Research
Summary, Key Terms, Internet Sites
Readings
Gang Intervention in Jails: A National Analysis
Recent Incarceration History Among a Sheltered Homeless Population
Inmate Assaults in Texas County Jails
Examining Implementation Issues With New Generation Jails
Gender
Introduction
Feminism
Females in Corrections: Growth, History, Needs, Programming, and Abuse
Female Correctional Officers
The Research
Summary, Key Terms, Internet Sites
Readings
Predicting the Prison Misconducts of Women Offenders: The Importance of Gender-Responsive Needs
Parenting Programs for Incarcerated Parents: Current Research and Future Directions
Gender Differences in Treatment Engagement Among a Sample of Incarcerated Substance Abusers
Gender, Ethnicity, and Offending Over the Life Course: Women's Pathways to Prison in the Aloha State
The Juvenile Justice/Corrections System
Introduction
Juvenile Delinquency
The Extent of Delinquency
History and Philosophy of Juvenile Justice
Childhood in the United States
The Beginning of the Juvenile Courts
Juvenile Waiver to Criminal Court
Extending Due Process to Juveniles
Intensive Probation
Institutional Corrections
Summary, Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Internet Sites
Readings
Juvenile Justice: The Legacy of Punitive Policy
Juvenile Waiver, Boot Camp, and Recidivism in a Northwestern State
A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of a Shock Incarceration and Aftercare Program for Juvenile Offenders
Management of Juvenile Correctional Facilities
Corrections in The 21st Century
Introduction: Learning From the Past So That We Have Hope for the Future
Punitive Policies Yield Overuse of Corrections
Professionalization
Corrections Is a Relationship Business
Current Directions: Privatization, Correctional Programming, Religion, Health Care, Older Inmates
Key Term, Discussion Questions, Internet Sites
Readings
Prison Privatization: An Environmental Catch-22
The Challenge of Change: Correctional Programs and Evidence-Based Practices
Revisiting the Literature on Prisoners Who Are Older: Are We Wiser?
Thinking About the Relationship Between Health Dynamics in the Free Community and the Prison
Glossary
Credits and Sources
References
Index
About the Authors
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