NCJ Number
176395
Editor(s)
R R Friedmann
Date Published
1998
Length
450 pages
Annotation
In assessing the Israeli criminal justice knowledge base and its implications for Israel and international scholarship, this book explores crime, legislation, law enforcement, courts, corrections, and the victim.
Abstract
The four chapters of Part I, "Sources of Corrections Law," present a general history of American law and how the U.S. legal system works; the role of corrections in the criminal justice system; legal provisions that are most often encountered in corrections litigation; and the legal steps that should be anticipated in a corrections lawsuit. The 12 chapters of Part II, "Constitutional Law of Corrections," discuss those areas of corrections work in which various provisions of the Constitution have been examined to determine whether they define or limit what may be done by corrections officials. In many areas there are now U.S. Supreme Court decisions and other Federal court decisions that interpret how the U.S. Constitution applies to such corrections issues as offender access to courts; First Amendment implications for inmate mail, inmate visits and association, and religious freedom; Fourth amendment implications for searches in prisons; due process rights regarding inmate discipline, classification, transfers, personal injuries, and property loss; equal protection of the law for female offenders and others; cruel and unusual punishment; health care; and probation and parole. The seven chapters of Part III -- "Statutory and Administrative Law, Juveniles, Jails, Privatization, and Other Special Issues in Corrections" -- examine law that governs corrections by means other than the Constitution, as well as corrections issues that are somewhat peripheral to the central core of managing prisons, such as jail management, the management of juveniles and young offenders, privatization issues in corrections, and the loss of rights of convicted persons. Glossary, table of cases, and a subject index