NCJ Number
175237
Editor(s)
J W Marquart,
J R Sorensen
Date Published
1997
Length
509 pages
Annotation
This anthology discusses a broad range of contemporary and classical readings on corrections from a historical perspective and is intended to serve as a text or a supplement in a variety of corrections-related courses.
Abstract
Book contributions are organized in eight parts. The first part deals with the origins of imprisonment, with emphasis on social structures and discipline. The second part reviews early developments in imprisonment related to the penitentiary system in the United States and France, the reformatory prison system in the United States, prisons for women, and social control. The third part focuses on the prison community, the society of captives, female inmate subcultures, race relations in prisons, and inmate gangs. The fourth part covers correctional officers, prison administration, the quality of confinement in private and public prisons, and worker compensation in correctional settings. The remaining parts deal with prison litigation and inmate rights, institutional programming (rehabilitation, drug abuse treatment, health care, and inmates with children), community corrections, and new directions in the field of corrections. References