Prisons: Crime and Justice (26) - Brossura

Tonry, Michael H.; Petersilia, Joan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0226808505 ISBN 13: 9780226808505

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2000

Riassunto

America's prison population has quadrupled in the past two decades, with an enormous impact on families, communities, correctional officers, policy makers, and prisoners themselves. The use of imprisonment as a means of social control has come to the fore in many public debates—whether the issues be deterrence, incapacitation, public spending, overcrowding, or the effects of imprisonment on the offenders' later lives. Prisons addresses these and related topics, offering thought-provoking analyses of particular issues that deserve greater consideration, such as the effects of imprisonment on the children of inmates, the relationship between prisons and the surrounding communities, medical care in prisons, prisoner suicide and coping, adult correctional treatment, and prison management trends, and related topics.

Featuring articles by Alfred Blumstein and Allen Beck, Joan Petersilia, Anthony Bottoms, Douglas McDonald and others, Prisons provides reliable, up-to-date, and comprehensive overviews of policy issues and research developments concerning prisons and imprisonment. This timely collection of essays will benefit scholars, administrators, and policy makers alike.

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L'autore:

Michael Tonry is the Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota.

Joan Petersilia is a professor of criminology, law, and society in the School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine.

Product Description:

America's prison population has quadrupled in the 1980s-1990s, with an enormous impact on families, communities, correctional officers, policy makers and prisoners themselves. The use of imprisonment as a means of social control has come to the fore in many public debates - whether the issues be deterrence, incapacitation, public spending, overcrowding or the effects of imprisonment on the offenders' later lives. This work addresses these and related topics, offering analyses of particular issues that deserve greater consideration, such as the effects of imprisonment on the children of inmates, the relationship between prisons and the surrounding communities, medical care in prisons, prisoner suicide and coping, adult correctional treatment, prison management trends and related topics.

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• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0226808505
• ISBN 13: 9780226808505
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 300