The Dilemmas of Corrections

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Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-01-05
Publisher(s): Waveland Pr Inc
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Table of Contents

Preface ix
PART I PHILOSOPHICAL JUSTIFICATIONS FOR CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT 1(24)
1 Punishment as Healing for the Soul
4(7)
Plato
2 The Paradox of Punishment
11(14)
Alan H. Goldman
PART II HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PUNISHMENT AND IMPRISONMENT 25(50)
3 Throwing Away the Key: Imprisonment
34(14)
Lewis Lyons
4 Philadelphia, and Its Solitary Prison
48(11)
Charles Dickens
5 The Birch and the Lash on Sakhalin Island
59(16)
Anton Chekhov
PART III WHO GOES TO PRISON AND WHY 75(72)
6 Comparative International Rates of Incarceration: An Examination of Causes and Trends
79(11)
Marc Mauer
7 The Criminal Type
90(8)
Jessica Mitford
8 Racial Disparity and the Criminal Justice System: An Assessment of Causes and Responses
98(22)
Marc Mauer
9 The War on Drugs and the Incarceration of Mothers
120(10)
Stephanie Bush-Baskette
10 The Politics of Punishment: Evaluating Political Explanations of Incarceration Rates
130(17)
Kevin B. Smith
PART IV THE REALITIES OF PRISON LIFE 147(126)
11 Target Violence
153(18)
Daniel Lockwood
12 Prowling the Yard: The Public Culture of the Prison
171(40)
Robert Johnson
13 Women's Accounts of Their Prison Experiences: A Retrospective View of Their Subjective Realities
211(20)
Mark R. Pogrebin & Mary Dodge
14 "Opening a Vein": Inmate Poetry and the Prison Experience
231(22)
Robert Johnson & Nina Chernoff
15 On Psychological Experiments
253(20)
Erich Fromm
PART V THE COURTS, THE CONSTITUTION, AND CORRECTIONS: COMMENTARY AND KEY CASES 273(110)
16 Ewing v. California
303(21)
17 Hudson v. McMillian et al.
324(11)
18 Bounds, Correction Commissioner, et al. v. Smith et al.
335(10)
19 Thornburgh, Attorney General of the United States, et al. v. Abbott et al.
345(15)
20 Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole v. Hill et al.
360(8)
21 Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole v. Scott
368(15)
PART VI REHABILITATION PROGRAMS BEHIND BARS AND IN THE COMMUNITY 383(110)
22 "What Works?" Revisited: New Findings on Criminal Rehabilitation
390(14)
James Q. Wilson
23 From Nothing Works to What Works: Changing Professional Ideology in the 21st Century
404(25)
Francis T. Cullen & Paul Gendreau
24 Correctional Boot Camps: Lessons from a Decade of Research
429(10)
Dale G. Parent
25 The Effectiveness of Prison-Based Therapeutic Communities for the Treatment of Drug Involved Offenders
439(14)
James A. Inciardi
26 Probation and Cognitive Skills
453(8)
Frederick R. Chavaria
27 Prisoner Reentry: Public Safety and Reintegration Challenges
461(15)
Joan Petersilia
28 The Impact of Victim-Offender Mediation: Two Decades of Research
476(17)
Mark S. Umbreit, Robert B. Coates, & Betty Vos
PART VII CRITICAL PROBLEMS AND ISSUES IN CORRECTIONS 493(78)
29 The Disturbed Disruptive Inmate: Where Does the Bus Stop?
498(15)
Hans Toch
30 Older Inmates: Special Programming Concerns
513(13)
Peter C. Kratcoski
31 Prisons for Profit
526(12)
Eric Bates
32 The Trouble with "Scarlet Letter" Punishments
538(11)
Douglas Litowitz
33 To Kill or Not to Kill... For and Against the Death Penalty: The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense
549(8)
Ernest van den Haag
34 Why Conservatives Should Oppose the Death Penalty
557(14)
Kenneth C. Haas
About the Editors 571

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