Prisons Today and Tomorrow
3rd Edition
Published on 3. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-1-284-02021-2 (ISBN)
Description
Prisons: Today and Tomorrow, Third Edition uses current case studies and research to present balanced and comprehensive coverage of prisons and prisoners. Featuring chapters contributed by leading authorities on the modern prison system, this text examines the many purposes of prisons-punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation-and examines controversial issues such as whether imprisonment actually deters crime or merely serves as punishment.
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Edition
3rd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Sudbury
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Weight
595 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-284-02021-2 (9781284020212)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Other
09/2009
2nd Edition
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
€104.45
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Persons
Joycelyn M. Pollock is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas State University-San Marcos. She holds a Ph.D. from State University of New York at Albany and a J.D. from the University of Houston. She has published numerous books, including Women, Law, and Social Control, 2nd ed. (co-editor with Alida Medro), Dilemmas and Decisions: Ethics in Crime and Justice, 4th ed., Women, Prison and Crime, 2nd ed., Prisons and Prison Life: Costs and Consequences, Counseling Women in Prison, Sex and Supervision, and Morality Stories (co-author with Michael Braswell and Scott Braswell). Her published chapters and articles are in the areas of ethics, female criminality and corrections.