Research Catalog

Title

Long-term imprisonment : policy, science, and correctional practice / Timothy J. Flanagan, editor.

Publication

Thousands Oaks : Sage Publications, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Flanagan, Timothy J.

Description

xv, 262 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Summary

A collection of articles first published in The Prison Journal , the official journal of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, supplemented by research reports on the effects of long-term confinement in American and Canadian prisons and essays written by long-term prisoners. Articles examine the experiences of male and female inmates, and discuss the co.

Subject

• Prison sentences > Government policy > United States
• Older prisoners > Government policy > United States
• Older prisoners > Care > United States
• Prison administration > United States
• Prisoners > aged
• Prisons > standards
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Long-term incarceration : issues of science, policy and correctional practice / Timothy J. Flanagan -- An American portrait of long-term imprisonment / Timothy J. Flanagan -- Long-term offenders in Canada / John R. Weekes -- The long-termers : Louisiana's longest serving inmates and why they've stayed so long / Ronald Wikberg and Burk Foster -- Facing long-term imprisonment / Michael G. Santos -- Coping with imprisonment : a long-termer's view / Carl Kummerlowe -- The controversy over the effects of long-term incarceration / J. Stephen Wormith -- Long-term incarceration impacts and characteristics of long-term offenders : an empirical analysis / Doris Layton MacKenzie and Lynne Goodstein -- Reexamining the cruel and unusual punishment of prison life / James Bonta and Paul Gendreau -- The unintended effects of long-term imprisonment / Nigel Walker -- Adaptation and adjustment among long-term prisoners / Timothy J. Flanagan -- Women lifers : assessing the experience / Elaine Genders and Elaine Player -- Long-term incarceration of female offenders : prison adjustment and coping / Doris Layton MacKenzie, James W. Robinson, and Carol S. Campbell -- Behavior and adaptation in long-term prison inmates : descriptive longitudinal results / Edward Zamble -- The world of prisoners' wives / Laura T. Fishman -- The good old days in the joint / Hans Toch -- Administrative perspectives on management of long-term prisoners / Timothy J. Flanagan [and others] -- Management of life sentence prisoners in England and Wales / Barry Mitchell -- Situational and social approaches to the prevention of disorder in long-term prisons / Anthony E. Bottoms, William Hay, and J. Richard Sparks -- Using multiple perspectives to develop strategies for managing long-term inmates / Michael J. Sabath and Ernest L. Cowles -- Addressing the program needs of long-term inmates / Ernest L. Cowles and Michael J. Sabath -- Programming for long-term inmates : a new perspective / William R.T. Palmer -- Sentence planning for long-term inmates / Timothy J. Flanagan -- The long-term inmate as a long-term problem / Hans Toch -- Correctional policy and the long-term prisoner / Timothy J. Flanagan.

ISBN

• 0803970323 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0803970331 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^95001494^

OCLC

• 31971759
• SCSB-9984387

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library