Research Catalog

Title

Aging in prison : the integration of research and practice / Martha Henderson Hurley.

Author

Hurley, Martha Henderson

Publication

Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2014]

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Description

xi, 187 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Explores the costs and benefits of keeping aging inmates incarcerated during their most medically expensive yet least crime-prone years. The text concludes by examining what can be done in terms of policy options, sentencing options and programs to improve the outlook for this aging inmate population and proposes that a philosophical 'Ethic of Care' approach be implemented to guide both present and future practices.

Subject

• Prisons > organization & administration
• Health Status
• Aged
• Health Care Costs
• Prisoners
• Older prisoners > United States
• Aged
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Why study long-term and elderly prisoners? -- Who are the long-term inmates? What are the costs? What are their needs? -- Who are the elderly inmates? What are the costs? What are their needs? --Medical health issues -- Mental health needs -- Victimization -- Programs and sentencing options -- An ethic of care.

ISBN

• 9781594609947 (alk. paper)
• 1594609942 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013030378

OCLC

855263763

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library