Prisons
Subtitle: today and tomorrow
By: Joycelyn M. Pollock, general editor.
Contributors: Pollock, Joycelyn M., 1956-
Publisher: Aspen
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Gaithersburg, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
Subjects: Prisons -- United States.; Corrections -- United States.; Imprisonment -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The philosophy of punishment / Joycelyn M. Pollock; title: Race, gender, and the American prison: historical observations / Robert Johnson; title: The crisis and consequences of prison overcrowding / Alida V. Merlo; title: The classification of inmates / David Spencer; title: Industry, agriculture, and education / William Stone; title: Rehabilitation revisited / Joycelyn M. Pollock; title: The social world of the prisoner / Joycelyn M. Pollock; title: Management and administrative issues / Robert Freeman; title: Correctional officers: understudied and misunderstood / Robert Freeman; title: Prisoners' rights: the pendulum swings / John McLaren; title: The privatization of prisons / Ronald Becker; title: Jails / Dennis Giever; title: The future / Joycelyn M. Pollock.