Culture of Urban Control Jail

Informationen zum Autor By John P. Walsh Klappentext Through an analysis of a federal consent decree and media representation related to overcrowding within the largest single-site jail facility in the United States, the incarceration binge of the 1990's is explored at the local level in The Culture of Urban Control: Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Era. Analysis of jail conditions, expansion, the inmate experience and changing correctional populations provide a narrative of the culture of control within the Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago, Illinois. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsTables and FiguresIntroductionChapter 1: From Past to Present: Correctional System Overcrowding and Institutional ReformChapter 2: Conditions of Confinement: The Social Reality of the Jail InmateChapter 3: The City within the City: Altering Population and SpaceChapter 4: Expanding the Jail into the Community: Growth, Development, and Mutual InterestChapter 5: Constructing the Jail within Local Media: Presenting Expansion to the PublicChapter 6: The Politics of Local Level Punishments: Presiding over the Culture of ControlConclusionAppendixBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Product details

• Authors: John P. Walsh, Walsh John P.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9780739174647
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7464-7
• Series: Issues in Crime and Justice; Issues in Crime and Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Penology and punishment, Urban communities, Penology & punishment, Urban communities / city life