NCJ Number
170213
Date Published
1997
Length
662 pages
Annotation
This text is the collaborative effort of many criminal justice scholars; as such, it incorporates diverse points of view to provide students, practitioners, and policymakers with the most relevant and current information on corrections.
Abstract
The text is comprised of 19 chapters, the first two of which examine criminal justice processes and correctional history. The next three chapters present information on various correctional systems, including local, State, and Federal arrangements. Subsequent chapters cover the nature of jails, prisoner characteristics, State and Federal correctional agencies, institutional corrections, correctional administration, and various treatment programs and activities for prison inmates. Other chapters focus on the social structure of prisons, effects of incarceration, problems arising from the imprisonment of special category offenders, prison violence, and the nature and extent of sex in prison contraband markets, and the relationship between law and corrections. Final chapters address community- based corrections, probation, parole, juvenile corrections, female corrections, the death penalty, and issues facing corrections in the next century. Each chapter concludes with a section that examines significant issues related to corrections. References, tables, figures, and photographs