Culture of Urban Control Jail

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Tables and Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1: From Past to Present: Correctional System Overcrowding and Institutional Reform
Chapter 2: Conditions of Confinement: The Social Reality of the Jail Inmate
Chapter 3: The City within the City: Altering Population and Space
Chapter 4: Expanding the Jail into the Community: Growth, Development, and Mutual Interest
Chapter 5: Constructing the Jail within Local Media: Presenting Expansion to the Public
Chapter 6: The Politics of Local Level Punishments: Presiding over the Culture of Control
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By John P. Walsh

Product details

• Authors: John P. Walsh, Walsh John P.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2015
• EAN: 9781498511384
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1138-4
• 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