America's prisons
By: Jack Lasky, book editor
Series: Opposing viewpoints series; Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780737775365; 9780737775372
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Criminals; Prisons; Alternatives to imprisonment; Imprisonment; Rehabilitation
Other titles: America's prisons (Greenhaven Press)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What problems do America's prisons face?; title: The new Jim Crow  -- Michelle Alexander ;; title: Too many prison inmates? It's not so simple  -- Morris B. Hoffman ;; title: The prison system is broken because of the war on drugs  -- Brian Mann ;; title: The scariest explanation for America's vast prison population : we want it that way  -- Jakub Wrzesniewski ;; title: The private prison system is dysfunctional and cruel  -- Brian Magee ;; title: Private prisons are beneficial  -- Erwin A. Blackstone and Simon Hakim; title: Who is in America's prisons?; title: African Americans are overrepresented in prisons  -- Rina Palta ;; title: The African American incarceration rate is the result of African American crime  -- Jason L. Riley ;; title: Female prisoners should receive gender-specific attention  -- Megan Quattlebaum ;; title: We should stop putting women in jail. For anything  -- Patricia O'Brien ;; title: The juvenile detention system is broken  -- Sara Mayeux ;; title: Juvenile detention can be effective  -- James Swift; title: Are prisoners treated humanely?; title: Solitary confinement is torture-- and morally wrong  -- Heather Rice ;; title: Yes, some inmates still deserve solitary confinement  -- Greg Dobbs ;; title: Food as punishment : giving U.S. inmates 'the loaf' persists  -- Eliza Barclay ;; title: Prisoner disenfranchisement is wrong and dangerous  -- Jonathan Purtle ;; title: Prisoner disenfranchisement should not be abandoned  -- Hans A. von Spakovsky; title: Do prison alternatives work?; title: Drug courts are not a good alternative for drug offenders  -- Margaret Dooley-Sammuli and Nastassia Walsh ;; title: Drug courts are a good alternative for drug offenders  -- Jessica Huseman ;; title: Electronic monitoring is an effective alternative to incarceration  -- Dylan Matthews ;; title: Electronic monitoring is not an effective alternative to incarceration  -- James Kilgore ;; title: Public shaming is a good substitute for imprisonment  -- Brian Hampel ;; title: Public shaming is not a good substitute for imprisonment -- David M. Reutter.