Prisons :
Prisons : today and tomorrow /
Joycelyn M. Pollock, general editor.
- Gaithersburg, Md. : Aspen, 1997.
- xxvii, 505 p. ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The philosophy of punishment / Joycelyn M. Pollock -- Race, gender, and the American prison: historical observations / Robert Johnson -- The crisis and consequences of prison overcrowding / Alida V. Merlo -- The classification of inmates / David Spencer -- Industry, agriculture, and education / William Stone -- Rehabilitation revisited / Joycelyn M. Pollock -- The social world of the prisoner / Joycelyn M. Pollock -- Management and administrative issues / Robert Freeman -- Correctional officers: understudied and misunderstood / Robert Freeman -- Prisoners' rights: the pendulum swings / John McLaren -- The privatization of prisons / Ronald Becker -- Jails / Dennis Giever -- The future / Joycelyn M. Pollock.
0834209500
96077254
Prisons--United States.
Corrections--United States.
Imprisonment--United States.
HV9471 / P783 1997
365/.973
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The philosophy of punishment / Joycelyn M. Pollock -- Race, gender, and the American prison: historical observations / Robert Johnson -- The crisis and consequences of prison overcrowding / Alida V. Merlo -- The classification of inmates / David Spencer -- Industry, agriculture, and education / William Stone -- Rehabilitation revisited / Joycelyn M. Pollock -- The social world of the prisoner / Joycelyn M. Pollock -- Management and administrative issues / Robert Freeman -- Correctional officers: understudied and misunderstood / Robert Freeman -- Prisoners' rights: the pendulum swings / John McLaren -- The privatization of prisons / Ronald Becker -- Jails / Dennis Giever -- The future / Joycelyn M. Pollock.
0834209500
96077254
Prisons--United States.
Corrections--United States.
Imprisonment--United States.
HV9471 / P783 1997
365/.973