Corrections in America : An Introduction
ISBN: 9780135980385 | 0135980380
Edition: 8thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
Pub. Date: 6/1/1997
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Experts in crime and criminology, practitioners in the field of institutional and community corrections, and instructors use this text in many ways. It is used as a textbook as well as a standard desk reference and a library resource because of its encyclopedic coverage of the subject.
| Foreword | xxi | (2) | |||
| Preface | xxiii | (8) | |||
| About the Authors | xxxi | ||||
| PART I: HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF CORRECTIONS | 1 | (74) | |||
| 3 | (13) | |||
| 16 | (14) | |||
| 30 | (23) | |||
| 53 | (22) | |||
| PART II: LAW AND THE LEGAL PROCESS | 75 | (84) | |||
| 77 | (21) | |||
| 98 | (17) | |||
| 115 | (19) | |||
| 134 | (25) | |||
| PART III: THE CORRECTIONAL PROCESS | 159 | (98) | |||
| 161 | (22) | |||
| 183 | (16) | |||
| 199 | (18) | |||
| 217 | (21) | |||
| 238 | (19) | |||
| PART IV: THE CORRECTIONAL CLIENT | 257 | (114) | |||
| 259 | (16) | |||
| 275 | (16) | |||
| 291 | (25) | |||
| 316 | (27) | |||
| 343 | (28) | |||
| PART V: RIGHTS OF THE SENTENCED OFFENDER | 371 | (76) | |||
| 373 | (25) | |||
| 398 | (28) | |||
| 426 | (21) | |||
| PART VI: CORRECTIONS AS A PROFESSION | 447 | (66) | |||
| 449 | (25) | |||
| 474 | (17) | |||
| 491 | (22) | |||
| PART VII: CORRECTIONAL SYSTEMS | 513 | (78) | |||
| 515 | (22) | |||
| 537 | (17) | |||
| 554 | (16) | |||
| 570 | (21) | |||
| PART VIII: THE FUTURE OF CORRECTIONS | 591 | (14) | |||
| 593 | (12) | |||
| Glossary | 605 | (26) | |||
| Index of Authors | 631 | (12) | |||
| Subject Index | 643 |
