Corrections: A Critical Approach

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Routledge, 14. okt. 2013 - 768 sider

Corrections: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition confronts mass imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the more troubling considering that its correctional population is overrepresented by the poor, African-Americans, and Latinos.

Not only throwing crucial light on matters involving race and social class, this book also identifies and examines the key social forces shaping penal practice in the US - politics, economics, morality, and technology. By attending closely to historical and theoretical development, the narrative takes into account both instrumental (goal-oriented) and expressive (cultural) explanations to sharpen our understanding of punishment and the growing reliance on incarceration.

Covering five main areas of inquiry - penal context, penal populations, penal violence, penal process, and penal state - this book is essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate students interested in undertaking a critical analysis of penology.

 

Innhold

List of Figures
Georgia
List of Abbreviations
Photo Acknowledgements
About the Author
Summary
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Review questions
Assaults and Riots
Power vacuum model
Official force
Review questions
The Death Penalty
Summary
PENAL STATE
Summary

Women in Corrections
The Jacksonian
Theoretical Penology
The Social World of Prisoners
Women in prison
Alternatives to Incarceration
Review questions
Juveniles in Corrections
Emergence of probation
Parole
Unionization
Production of prisoners
Review questions
Review questions
Institutional control
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Om forfatteren (2013)

Michael Welch is a Professor in the Criminal Justice program at Rutgers University, US. His research interests include punishment, human rights, and social control, and his articles have appeared in journals such as Punishment and Society, Social Justice and Critical Criminology. He has also authored numerous books, including Crimes of Power & States of Impunity: The U.S. Response to Terror (Rutgers University Press, 2009), Ironies of Imprisonment (Sage, 2005), and Punishment in America (Sage, 1999).

Bibliografisk informasjon

TittelCorrections: A Critical Approach
ForfatterMichael Welch
Utgave3, illustrert, revidert
UtgiverRoutledge, 2013
ISBN113684273X, 9781136842733
Lengde768 sider
  
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