Issues in Corrections
Research, Policy, and Future Prospects
Published on 15. December 2016
Book
Hardback
214 pages
978-1-4985-4121-3 (ISBN)
Description
Since the 1970s, the corrections system has experienced exponential growth. Over the past four decades, the number of inmates held in US prisons and jails has quadrupled. This massive growth is associated with a number of different issues and challenges within prisons and jails, including overcrowding; gang activity and misconduct; a shift away from rehabilitation and programming; expanded use of solitary confinement; inmates' human rights; criticisms of health care; and massive, publicly funded budgets. Many states now spend more on corrections than on higher education.
This book explores these issues in depth. It takes current topics in institutional corrections and explores the main issues surrounding each. Themes include institutional corrections, prison behavior (including gangs and misconduct), solitary confinement, prison programming, and rehabilitation.
This book explores these issues in depth. It takes current topics in institutional corrections and explores the main issues surrounding each. Themes include institutional corrections, prison behavior (including gangs and misconduct), solitary confinement, prison programming, and rehabilitation.
Reviews / Votes
Issues in Corrections: Research, Policy, and Future Prospects provides a thorough review of a number of issues often ignored or given little coverage by other texts in the discipline. Hilinski-Rosick and Walsh use current research from a number of disciplines to explore both traditional (jails, prisons, and gender issues in corrections) and nontraditional (prison gangs, solitary confinement, and correctional education) topics through a modern, insightful lens not often found in texts of this nature. Issues in Corrections should be required reading for any course in corrections where instructors want their students to study current corrections issues in more detail than these issues are given in the traditional survey in corrections textbooks. -- David C. May, Mississippi State UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
1 tables;
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-4121-3 (9781498541213)
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Issues in Corrections
Research, Policy, and Future Prospects
E-Book
12/2016
1st Edition
Lexington Books
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Persons
Carly M. Hilinski-Rosick is assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Tampa.
John P. Walsh is associate professor of criminal justice at Grand Valley State University.
John P. Walsh is associate professor of criminal justice at Grand Valley State University.
Content
Section I: Institutional Corrections
Chapter 1. Introduction: Corrections Today, Carly M. Hilinski-Rosick and John P. Walsh
Chapter 2. Jails, John P. Walsh and Sarah Light
Chapter 3. Prisons, Carly M. Hilinski-Rosick
Chapter 4. Gender Issues in Corrections, Carrie L. Buist and Emily Lenning
Section II: Security Issues
Chapter 5. Classification of Inmates, Mari B. Pierce
Chapter 6. Prison Gangs and Security Threat Groups, Beverly R. Crank and Catherine D. Marcum
Chapter 7. Solitary Confinement: Restrictive Housing, Segregation, and the Isolation of Inmates, Jody Sundt
Section III: Programming
Chapter 8. Psychological Prison Programs, Emily Lasko and Chad Posick
Chapter 9. Substance Abuse Treatment in Prisons and Jails, David Olson
Chapter 10. Correctional Education and Social Reintegration, Daniel R. Lee
Chapter 11. Conclusion: Corrections Tomorrow, John P. Walsh and Carly M. Hilinski-Rosick
Chapter 1. Introduction: Corrections Today, Carly M. Hilinski-Rosick and John P. Walsh
Chapter 2. Jails, John P. Walsh and Sarah Light
Chapter 3. Prisons, Carly M. Hilinski-Rosick
Chapter 4. Gender Issues in Corrections, Carrie L. Buist and Emily Lenning
Section II: Security Issues
Chapter 5. Classification of Inmates, Mari B. Pierce
Chapter 6. Prison Gangs and Security Threat Groups, Beverly R. Crank and Catherine D. Marcum
Chapter 7. Solitary Confinement: Restrictive Housing, Segregation, and the Isolation of Inmates, Jody Sundt
Section III: Programming
Chapter 8. Psychological Prison Programs, Emily Lasko and Chad Posick
Chapter 9. Substance Abuse Treatment in Prisons and Jails, David Olson
Chapter 10. Correctional Education and Social Reintegration, Daniel R. Lee
Chapter 11. Conclusion: Corrections Tomorrow, John P. Walsh and Carly M. Hilinski-Rosick