Research Catalog

Title

The American prison : imagining a different future / Francis T. Cullen, University of Cincinnati, Cheryl Lero Jonson, Xavier University, Mary K. Stohr, Missouri State University.

Publication

Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Lero Johnson, Cheryl, (Harvard local name)
• Cullen, Francis T.
• Jonson, Cheryl Lero
• Stohr, Mary K. (Mary Katherine), 1958-

Description

xvii, 285 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"For the first time in four decades, prison populations are declining and politicians have reached the consensus that mass imprisonment is no longer sustainable. At this unique moment in the history of corrections, the opportunity has emerged to discuss in meaningful ways how best to shape efforts to control crime and to intervene effectively with offenders. This breakthrough book brings together established correctional scholars to imagine what this prison future might entail. Each scholar uses his or her expertise to craft--in an accessible way for students to read--a blueprint for how to create a new penology along a particular theme. For example, one contributor writes about how to use existing research expertise to create a prison that is therapeutic and another provides insight on how to create a "feminist" prison. In the final chapter the editors pull together the "lessons learned" in a cohesive, comprehensive essay."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Prisons > United States
• Corrections > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Reforming offenders -- The therapeutic prison / Paula Smith and Myrinda Schweitzer -- The restorative prison / Lois Presser -- Morally transforming offenders -- The faith-based prison / Byron R. Johnson -- The virtuous prison / Francis T. Cullen, Jody L. Sundt, and John F. Wozniak -- Doing justice -- The feminist prison / Kristi Holsinger -- The racially just prison / Craig Hemmens and Mary K. Stohr -- Doing no harm -- The safe prison / Benjamin Steiner and Benjamin Meade -- The healthy prison / Roberto Hugh Potter and Jeffrey W. Rosky -- Reinventing the prison -- The private prison / Kevin A. Wright -- The green prison / Mary K. Stohr and John F. Wozniak -- Making prisons perform -- The small prison / Cheryl Lero Jonson, John E. Eck, and Francis T. Cullen -- The accountable prison / Francis T. Cullen, Cheryl Lero Jonson, and John E. Eck -- The american prison -- Lessons learned : from penal harm to penal help / Mary K. Stohr, Cheryl Lero Jonson, and Francis T. Cullen -- Index -- About the editors -- About the contributors.

ISBN

• 9781452241364 (pbk.)
• 1452241368 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012046295

OCLC

• 815384561
• SCSB-11962934

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library