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Correctional Contexts : Contemporary and Classical Readings

ISBN: 9780199751464 | 0199751463
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/16/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
A comprehensive and critical review of corrections, Correctional Contexts: Contemporary and Classical Readings , Fourth Edition , traces the history and development of corrections and punishment as it has evolved in the U.S. over the past few centuries. Editors Edward J. Latessa and Alexander M. Holsinger present both classical and contemporary articles that cover the history of corrections in the U.S.; discuss how various facets of the system operate today; and consider where we as a country may be headed regarding the confinement, control, an... MORE

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Each Part opens with an Introduction.

Preface
About the Contributors
Acknowledgements
About the Editors

PART I: HISTORY AND PURPOSE OF PUNISHMENT AND IMPRISONMENT

1. The Spectacle of Suffering, Pieter C. Spierenburg

2. The Discovery of the Asylum, David J. Rothman

3. A Look at Prison History, Thorsten Sellin

4. Partial Justice: Women, Prisons, and Social Control, Nicole Hahn Rafter... MORE

Edward J. Latessa is a Professor and Director of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati.

Alexander M. Holsinger is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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