America's prisons
Subtitle: opposing viewpoints
By: Bonnie Szumski, book editor
Contributors: Bender, David L., 1936-
Edition: 4th ed.
Series: Opposing viewpoints series; Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: St. Paul, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780899083506; 9780899083759
Subjects: Prisoners; Criminals; Prisons; Rehabilitation; Punishment
Description: Presents opposing viewpoints about prison issues. Includes critical thinking skill activities and a list of organizations to contact.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: America's prisons / David L. Bender. 3rd rev. and extended ed. c1980.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 148.
Table of contents: title: Prisons should rehabilitate / Warren E. Burger; title: Prisons cannot rehabilitate / Michael A. Kroll; title: Prisons should punish / Francis T. Murphy; title: Punishment does not work / Richard Moran; title: Prisons are for society's protection / Allan C. Brownfeld; title: Prisons cannot protect society / Prison Research Education Action Project; title: Prisons create a criminal personality / Jack Henry Abbott; title: The criminal personality exists before prison / Stanton E. Samenow; title: Prisons are violent and dehumanizing / Steve Lerner; title: Prisons should be dehumanizing / Graeme R. Newman; title: Prisons are too comfortable / J.J. Maloney; title: Prison comforts make little difference / John Irwin and Rick Mockler; title: Selective imprisonment should be used / Brian Forst; title: Selective imprisonment should not be used / Lee S. Pershan; title: Crime victims should participate in sentencing / Louise Gilbert; title: Crime victims should not participate in sentencing / Wilbert Rideau and Billy Sinclair; title: Probation can work / Joan Petersilia; title: Probation cannot work / Stephen Chapman; title: Probation cannot work / Stephen Chapman; title: Privately operated prisons are economical / Robert W. Poole Jr.; title: Privately operated prisons are unjust / Michael Walzer; title: Make criminals compensate their victims / Harvard Law Review; title: Military conscription is a practical solution / Jack E. Bynum and Leo C. Downing Jr.; title: Corporal punishment is effective / Graeme R. Newman.