Incarcerating Criminals: Prisons and Jails in Social and Organizational Context / Edition 1

by Timothy J. Flanagan, James W. Marquart, Kenneth G. Adams

Overview

Incarcerating Criminals 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. Selections provide historical and contemporary perspectives and data on the institutions themselves, their origins and development, and current controversies such as overcrowding, substance abuse treatment, and health care. Understanding why prisons are built when they are, where they are, and administered as they are requires students to appreciate the inextricable links between these institutions, the rest of the criminal justice system, and the social and political atmosphere that supports them. Incarcerating Criminals offers students a better understanding of the reasons for developing prisons and jails and the premises underlying contemporary correctional operations and crime control proposals. A special section focuses on specific inmate groups, from mentally ill offenders to those suffering from AIDS, to female inmates and gang members, to the correctional staff themselves. The concluding section examines the future of jails and prisons, including such current issues as privatization, risk management, and technological advances that affect corrections. Edited by three of the leading scholars in the field, Incarcerating Criminals is essential for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in criminal justice, criminology, sociology, and public policy, and for those individuals interested in learning more about correctional institutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195105414
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/26/1998
Series:	Readings in Crime and Punishment
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	9.14(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

all are at Sam Houston State University

Table of Contents

PrefaceCHAPTER 1. THE ROLE OF PUNISHMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INCARCERATIONThe Disappearance of Public Executions, Pieter SpierenburgThe Historical Origins of the Sanction of Imprisonment for Serious Crime, John H. LangbeinThe Invention of the Penitentiary, David J. RothmanComplete and Austere Institutions, Michel FoucaultPrisons for Women, 1790-1980, Nicole Hahn RafterCHAPTER 2. THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF INCARCERATIONThe Legacy and Future of Corrections Litigation, Susan SturmPrisons: The Cruel and Unusual Punishment Controversy, Phillip J. CooperJudicial Reform and Prisoner Control: The Impact of Ruiz v. Estelle on a Texas Penitentiary, James W. Marquart and Ben M. CrouchJudicial Intervention: Lessons from the Past, John J. DiIulio, Jr.CHAPTER 3. CONTEMPORARY CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS AS PEOPLE PROCESSING ORGANIZATIONSA Prison Superintendent's Perspective on Women in Prison, Elaine M. LordThe Special Management Inmate, Richard A. McGee, George Warner, and Nora HarlowPrison Violence: A Scottish Perspective, David J. CookeChanges in Prison Culture: Prison Gangs and the Case of the "Pepsi Generation", Geoffrey Hunt, Stephanie Riegel, Tomas Morales, and Dan WaldorfThe Brother's Keeper: A Review of the Literature on Correctional Officers, Susan PhilliberOrganizational Barriers to Women Working as Corrections Officers in Men's Prisons, Nancy C. JurikThe Prison as a Constitutional Government, John J. DiIulio, Jr.CHAPTER 4. CONTEMPORARY PRISONS AS PROCESS: CORRECTIONAL INTERVENTIONHIV in Prisons, Peter M. Brien and Allen J. BeckAIDS Recommendations and Prisons in Australia, Michael KirbyTuberculosis in Correctional Facilities, Theodore M. Hammet and Lynne Harrold, with the assistance of Joel EpsteinClassification for Control in Jails and Prisons, Tim BrennanEffective Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems: What Do We Know?, Helen M. AnnisA Full Employment Policy for Prisons in the United States: Some Arguments, Estimates, and Implications, Timothy J. Flanagan and Kathleen MaguireLiteracy Training and Reintegration of Offenders, T.A. RyanEffective Correctional Programming: What Empirical Research Tells Us and What It Doesn't, Freidrich LoselDiscipline, Timothy J. FlanaganCHAPTER 5 THE MODERN JAILPrison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 1996, Darrell K. Gilliard and Allen J. BeckThe Jail, John IrwinWho Is in Jail? An Examination of the Rabble Hypothesis, John A. Backstrand, Don C. Gibbons, and Joseph F. JonesThe Jail and the Community, John M. KlofasCHAPTER 6. FUTURE ISSUES AND TRENDSCriminal Justice Performance Measures for Prisons, Charles H. LoganPublic Imprisonment by Private Means: The Re-emergence of Private Prisons and Jails in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, Douglas C. McDonaldRacial Disproportion in U.S. Prisons, Michael TonryWhat Not to Do About Crime — The American Society of Criminology 1994 Presidential Address, Jerome H. SkolnickThe Bull Market in Corrections, Kenneth AdamsThe Future of the Penitentiary, Kenneth Adams, Timothy J. Flanagan, and James W. Marquart