Cullen, Francis T.
Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison
Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated version of the highly successful text addressing the origins, evolution, and promise of America’s penal system.
- Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison experience within both contemporary and historical contexts
- Features first person accounts from male and female inmates and staff, revealing what it’s actually like to live and work in prison
- Includes all-new chapters on prison reform and on supermax correctional facilities, including the latest research on confinement, long-term segregation, and death row
- Explores a wide range of topics, including the nature of prison as punishment; prisoner personality types and coping strategies; gang violence; prison officers’ custodial duties; and psychological, educational, and work programs
- Develops policy recommendations for the future based on qualitative and quantitative research and evidence-based initiatives
Avainsanat: Prison reform; penal reform; supermax; criminal justice system; U.S. prisons; American prisons; American prison reform; prison violence; criminality; prisoner violence; prison adjustment; correctional officers
- Tekijä(t)
- Cullen, Francis T.
- Johnson, Robert
- Liebling, Alison
- Martin, Alison B.
- Rocheleau, Ann Marie
- Julkaisija
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2017
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 4
- Sivumäärä
- 432 sivua
- Kategoria
- Kasvatus, opetus
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781119082828
- Painetun ISBN
- 9781119082774