Ranking Correctional Punishments

by May, David C.; Wood, Peter B.

• ISBN13: 9781594605895
• ISBN10: 1594605890
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
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Summary

 In this book, May and Wood draw on a number of studies they have conducted with convicted offenders (both in prison and supervised in the community), criminal justice practitioners, and the public in the past decade to provide new insight regarding the continuum of corrections proposed by Morris and Tonry in their 1990 classic work Between Prison and Probation. May and Wood's findings call into question the idea of a continuum with prison on one end and regular probation on the other and discuss the implications of these findings for both sentencing and community supervision strategies.

Author Biography

David May is a professor in the Department of Correctional and Juvenile Justice Services at Eastern Kentucky University. Peter Wood is a professor and department head of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University.