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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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