Justice, punishment, treatment; the correctional process.
By: Introd. by Abraham S. Goldstein.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 579
Subjects: Corrections -- United States
Notes: 117,669

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introductory perspectives -- Legislative choice : delegation of the responsibility to the judiciary and corrections -- Bureaucratic prechoice : presentence investigation and report -- Judicial choice : incarceration and alternatives thereto -- What is prison? -- Theories of punishment and correction : what is the function of prison? -- Classification : how should the prison differentiate among inmates? --  Institutional misconduct and responses thereto : how should prison rules be made and enforced? -- The rule of law and prison life : the role of lawyer and judge in institutional control of the inmate population -- Prerelease -- Parole : unfettered power and discretionary prediction -- Pardon : the institutionalized application of mercy -- After prison : the hardest way.