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IT'S ABOUT TIME provides a compelling argument, based on extensive research, illustrating how the U.S. attempts to lower crime by using our correctional system as the primary solution. The book includes personal accounts from prisoners to illustrate the brutal aspects of prison life and the intent of the U.S. to create a "prison industrial complex." This book often exposes students for the first time to varying points of view of the corrections system. The authors, one of whom served 10 years in prison and is now a noted criminologist in the field, present the material in a powerful but compassionate manner. The book's strong research base and accessible style make it a popular choice for a wide variety of courses.

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Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Our Imprisonment Binge	p. 1
America's Growing Correctional Industrial Complex	p. 1
The Politics of the Fear of Crime	p. 5
America's History of Warehousing Prisoners	p. 9
What Has Been Accomplished by the Imprisonment Binge?	p. 12
The Costs of the Imprisonment Binge	p. 13
Notes	p. 15
Who Goes to Prison?	p. 17
Public Misperceptions About Who Goes to Prison	p. 17
National Trends on Prison Admissions	p. 19
A Closer Look at Who Goes to Prison	p. 22
How Serious Are Their Crimes?	p. 25
Patterns of Crime	p. 31
Habitual Offenders	p. 38
Conclusions	p. 46
Notes	p. 47
The Imprisonment of Children and Women	p. 50
The Children's Imprisonment Binge	p. 50
The Imprisonment Binge of Women	p. 57
Notes	p. 62
The Private Prison Binge	p. 64
Background	p. 64
Privatization of Corrections: A Historical Overview	p. 67
The Debate	p. 71
A Closer Look at State Prison Privatization	p. 77
The Future of Privatization	p. 85
Notes	p. 86
Doing Time	p. 90
Warehousing Prisoners	p. 90
The Development of the Contemporary Prison	p. 91
The Bureaucratic Prison	p. 97
The Prisoner Experience	p. 100
Coping with Violence	p. 108
Crippled	p. 109
Alienated	p. 111
Notes	p. 112
Super Max	p. 117
What Is Super Max?	p. 117
History of Administrative Segregation	p. 119
The Official Program	p. 120
The Reality of Lockup	p. 121
Turmoil in Lockup	p. 121
New Maximum-Security Prisons	p. 125
A Closer Look at a Contemporary Lockup Unit: The Texas Administrative Segregation Population	p. 129
The Consequences of Lockup	p. 131
Notes	p. 137
Release	p. 139
The Growing Number of Prison Releases	p. 139
The Rising Tide of Parole Failures	p. 143
Obstacles to Making It After Release	p. 146
Those Who Make It	p. 151
Notes	p. 157
The Correctional Treatment Industrial Complex	p. 160
Introduction	p. 160
Factors Related to Criminal Behavior	p. 162
What Does Work?	p. 165
Boot Camps	p. 167
Prison Drug Treatment	p. 169
Summary	p. 179
Notes	p. 180
The Three Strikes and You're Out Movement	p. 184
Introduction	p. 184
Diversity Among the States	p. 186
Comparison of the New Laws with Preexisting Sentencing Provisions	p. 191
Description and Legislative History of the California Law	p. 195
Impact of California's Law on the Courts	p. 197
Variation by Counties in the Application of the Law	p. 201
Impact on State Prison Systems	p. 202
Who Are the Strikers?	p. 204
Impact on Correctional Costs in California	p. 208
Impact on Crime Rates Within California	p. 210
Impact on Crime Rates Among the States	p. 212
Summary	p. 213
Notes	p. 214
It's About Time	p. 219
The Financial Cost	p. 220
The "Incarceration Reduces Crime" Debate	p. 222
Voodoo Criminology	p. 236
America's Farm System for Criminals	p. 239
Our Prison System in the Twenty-First Century	p. 240
It's About Time	p. 244
Notes	p. 249
Index	p. 253
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