Reforming punishment
Subtitle: psychological limits to the pains of imprisonment
By: Craig Haney.
Series: Law and public policy
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Imprisonment -- United States; Imprisonment -- Psychological aspects; Prisons -- United States; Punishment -- United States
Description: Annotation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Humane values, psychology, and the pains of imprisonment; title: Psychology and the history of imprisonment : justice and human nature; title: Spreading pain : the punitive state and the state of the prisons; title: Attribution error as modern prison policy : race, drugs, and the rage to punish; title: Context matters : modern psychological theory and rational prison policy; title: The social context of prison : surviving the modern fortress warehouse; title: The situational pathologies of prison : maintaining control through force and intimidation; title: Prisoners in extremis : the lives of the mentally ill and developmentally disabled in prison; title: Law and the disregard of context : devolving standards of decency in prison; title: Limiting unnecessary prison pain : psychological theory and humane prison policy; title: Concluding thoughts on the pains of imprisonment.