Research Catalog

Title

• Incarcerating criminals : prisons and jails in social and organizational context / edited by Timothy J. Flanagan, James W. Marquart, Kenneth G. Adams.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Adams, Kenneth, 1953-
• Flanagan, Timothy J.
• Marquart, James W. (James Walter), 1954-

Description

xii, 332 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Places prisons and jails in the context of their social and organizational environments, examining these modern day correctional institutions and the issues and trends surrounding them. Offers a better understanding of the reasons for developing prisons and jails and the premises underlying contemporary correctional operations and crime control proposals.

Series Statement

• Readings in crime and punishment

Uniform Title

Readings in crime and punishment

Subject

• Correctional institutions > United States
• Imprisonment > United States
• Prison administration > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The disappearance of public executions / Pieter Spierenburg -- The historical origins of the sanction of imprisonment for serious crime / John H. Langbein -- The invention of the penitentiary / David J. Rothman -- Complete and austere institutions / Michel Foucault -- Prisons for women, 1790-1980 / Nicole Hahn Rafter -- The legacy and future of corrections litigation / Susan Sturm -- Prisons : the cruel and unusual punishment controversy / Phillip J. Cooper -- Judicial reform and prisoner control : the impact of Ruiz v. Estelle on a Texas Penitentiary / James W. Marquart and Ben M. Crouch -- Judicial intervention : lessons from the past / John J. DiIulio, Jr. -- A prison superintendent's perspective on women in prison / Elaine M. Lord -- The Special Managment Inmate / Richard A. McGee, George Warner, and Nora Harlow -- Prison violence : a Scottish perspective / David J. Cooke -- Changes in prison culture : prison gangs and the case of the "pepsi generation" / Geoffrey Hunt ... [et al.] -- The brother's keeper : a review of the literature on correctional officers / Susan Philliber -- Organizational barriers to women working as corrections officers in men's prisons / Nancy C. Jurik -- The prison as a constitutional government / John J. DiIulio, Jr. -- HIV in prisons / Peter M. Brien and Allen J. Beck -- AIDS recommendations and prisons in Australia / Michael Kirby -- Tuberculosis in correctional facilities / Theodore M. Hammett and Lynne Harrold, with the assistance of Joel Epstein -- Classification for control in jails and prisons / Tim Brennan -- Effective treatment for drug and alcohol problems : what do we know? / Helen M. Annis -- A full employment policy for prisons in the United States : some arguments, estimates, and implications / Timothy J. Flanagan and Kathleen Maguire -- Literacy training and reintegration of offenders / T. A. Ryan -- Effective correctional programming : what empirical research tells us and what it doesn't / Freidrich Lösel -- Disclipline / Timothy J. Flanagan -- Prison and jail inmates at midyear 1996 / Darrell K. Gilliard and Allen J. Beck -- The jail / John Irwin -- Who is in jail? An examination of the Rabble Hypothesis / John A. Backstrand, Don C. Gibbons, and Joseph F. Jones -- The jail and the community / John M. Klofas -- Criminal justice performance measures for prisons / Charles H. Logan -- Public imprisonment by private means : the re-emergence of private prisons and jails in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia / Douglas C. McDonald -- Racial disproportion in the U.S. prisons / Michael Tonry -- What not to do about crime-- the American Society of Criminology 1994 Presidential Address / Jerome H. Skolnick -- The bull market in corrections / Kenneth Adams -- The future of the penitentiary / Kenneth Adams, Timothy J. Flanagan, and James W. Marquart.

ISBN

• 0195105400
• 0195105419 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97018088^//r98

OCLC

37221103

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library