Hard time: a fresh look at understanding and reforming the prison
"This new edition of a longstanding, successful textbook explores the complex issues necessary to understand and reform the prison system. Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison experience within both contemporary and historical contexts Features first...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA Oxford Chichester, West Sussex
Wiley Blackwell
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Edition: | Fourth edition |
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| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 20 A 8404 |
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| Summary: | "This new edition of a longstanding, successful textbook explores the complex issues necessary to understand and reform the prison system. Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison experience within both contemporary and historical contexts Features first person accounts from prisoners and staff – both men and women – explaining what it’s like to live and work in prison, and in doing so brings the issues alive for students Includes brand new extensive chapters on prison reform, and on supermax correctional facilities – including research on confinement, long-term segregation, and death row Explores topics including the nature of prison as punishment; prisoner personality types and their coping strategies; gang violence; prison officers’ public and private custodial duties; and psychological, educational, and work programs offered Develops policy recommendations for the future based on qualitative and quantitative research and evidence-based initiatives"-- "Explores topics including the nature of prison as punishment; prisoner personality types and their coping strategies; gang violence; prison officers' public and private custodial duties; and psychological, educational, and work programs offered"-- Machine generated contents note: Dedication 4 Foreword 5 Chapter 1 Crime, Prison, and the Case for Corrections 10 A Predilection for Prisons 13 A Case for Decent Prisons 24 Chapter 2 Modern Prisons in Historical Context 34 American Prisons before the Penitentiary 34 Penitentiaries 36 Reformatories 42 The Big House 45 The Correctional Institution 51 Chapter 3 The Pains of Modern Imprisonment 63 Pain Amelioration in Prisons: Three Stages 64 Living with Deprivation 66 Pain and Harm 84 Chapter 4 Prisoner Deficits and Immature Coping 89 Immature Coping 89 Prisoner Types 97 Dysfunctional Adaptations to Imprisonment 104 Reconciling Public and Private Inmate Cultures 106 Chapter 5 The Public Culture of the Prison: Violence 110 The Nature of Violent Prisoners 111 The Nature of Violent Prisons 125 Situational Violence 130 A Note on Violence in Women's Prisons 133 Chapter 6 The Private Culture of the Prison: Living in Prison 136 Living in Prison 137 The Ecology of Prison Survival 142 Prison Life, Prison Niches 147 Coping Strategies for Living in Prison 162 More Than Survival 168 Chapter 7 Correctional Officers ' Public Custodial Agenda 171 Correctional Officer as Hack 171 Stress, Alienation, and Burnout 189 Chapter 8 Prison Officers ' Private Correctional Agenda 201 Providing Human Service 201 Human Service Activities 206 Rule Enforcement as Human Service Work: Developing Relationships and Legitimacy 212 Collaboration in Helping 215 Human Service in Perspective 220 Chapter 9 Supermax and the Overuse of Solitary Confinement 224 Living and Working in Supermax 225 Assessing the Efficacy of the Supermax Experiment 231 Some Failures of Supermax 235 Moving Forward: The Devil Is in the Details 249 Chapter 10 - Reform 254 Smarter Punishment, Better Prisons 256 Getting Out and Staying Out 279 Afterword 287 References 290 |
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| Item Description: | Revised edition of Hard time, 2002 Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 414 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781119082774 |