Correctional Perspectives : Views from Academics, Practitioners, and Prisoners
ISBN: 9780195330076 | 0195330072
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 10/22/2001
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This anthology features twelve contemporary topical areas in corrections--chosen for the unique challenges which each presents to researchers, correctional practitioners, and prisoners. Each topic is systematically examined from three different perspectives--academic, practitioner, and prisoner--for a total of thirty-six readings. Students compare each perspective and determine how they diverge or how they are similar. The twelve topic areas are: * Institutional Crowding * Growth of Women Prisoners in Corrections * Elements of Correctional Reha... MORE
| Effects of Sentencing Changes | |
| Institutional Crowding | |
| Academic Perspective: Challenging Beliefs About Prison Crowding | |
| Practitioner Perspective: A National Study of Correctional Administrator''s Views on Prison Crowding | |
| Prisoner Perspective: Report From an Overcrowded Maze | |
| Growth of Women PrisonersAcademic Perspective: Examining Trends in Female Incarceration | |
| Practitioner Perspe... MORE | |
| Lord provides details on issues women face during incarceration, and how the criminal justice system is responding differently to women offenders | |
| Ex-Prisoner Perspective: The Effect of the War on Drugs on Women Prisoners | |
| Treatment of Offenders | |
| Elements of Correctional Rehabilitation | |
| Academic Perspective: The Principles of Effective Intervention With Offenders | |
| Practitioner Perspective: Essential Elements of the Effective Therapeutic Community in the Correctional Institution: A Director''s Perspective | |
| Prisoner Perspective: Through the Narrow Gate | |
| Medical Treatment: HIV/AIDS in Corrections | |
| Academic Perspective: HIV/AIDS and the Correctional System | |
| Practitioner Perspective: Women Prisoners With HIV: A Letter From a Prison Doctor | |
| Prisoner Perspective: Till Death do us Part: The Deadly Game of AIDS in Prison | |
| Prison Security Issues | |
| Prison Gangs | |
| Practitioner Perspective: The Meaning of Prison Gang Tattoos | |
| Prisoner Perspective: Prison Gangs: Racial Separatism as a Form of Social Control | |
| Prison Violence | |
| Academic Perspective: The Reproduction of Violence in U.S. Prisons | |
| Practitioner Perspective: Violence and Incarceration: A Personal Observation | |
| Prisoner Perspective: Realities of Fear, | |
| Security Housing Units: Supermax Prisons | |
| Academic Perspective: Infamous Punishment: The Psychological Consequences of Isolation | |
| Practitioner Perspective: Attitudes of Prison Wardens Toward Administrative Segregation and Supermax Prisons | |
| Prisoner Perspective: It''s a Form of Warfare: A Description of Pelican Bay State Prison | |
| Women Guarding Men | |
| Academic Perspective: Women Corrections Officers in Men''s Prisons: Acceptance and Perceived Job Performance | |
| Practitioner Perspective: Working in a Male-Dominated World: Aggression and Women Correctional Officers | |
| Ex-Prisoner Perspective: Lady Hacks and Gentlemen Convicts | |
| Special Issues Facing Corrections | |
| Correctional Privatization | |
| Academic Perspective: Issues Concerning Private Prisons | |
| Practitioner Perspective: A Comparison of Job Satisfaction Among Private and Public Prison Employees | |
| Ex-Prisoner Perspective: Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other: Private Prisons and the Conditions of Confinement Debate | |
| Juveniles in Adult Corrections | |
| Academic Perspective: The Risks Juveniles Face in Adult Prisons | |
| Practitioner Perspective: Juveniles in Adult Prisons: Problems and Prospects | |
| Prisoner Perspective: Maximum-Security Offenders'' Attitudes Toward Placing Juveniles in Adult Prisons | |
| On Death RowAcademic Perspective: Death Work: A Modern Execution Team | |
| Practitioner Perspect | |
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