Lifers - Seeking Redemption in Prison

Zusatztext "No one knows prisons and prisoners better than John Irwin as he uses the unique perspective of a former prisoner to inform us about 17 "lifers" serving time in California's infamous San Quentin prison. Students! scholars! public officials and the general public must read this book!"-Randall G. Shelden! Criminal Justice! University of Nevada! Las Vegas Informationen zum Autor John Irwin taught sociology at San Francisco State University for 27 years, during which time he studied prisons and jails. His research was published in five books. He was also a member of the Working Party for the American Friends Service Committee that wrote the influential report--The Struggle for Justice. He worked closely with the California legislature on the Uniform Sentencing Act passed in 1976. Klappentext John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment - an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional wisdom on homicide, society's purposes of imprisonment, and offenders' reformability. Through the lifers' stories, he reveals what happens to prisoners serving very long sentences in correctional facilities and what this should tell us about effective sentencing policy. Zusammenfassung Tackles the issue of imprisonment with the conventional wisdom on homicide, society's purposes of imprisonment, and offenders' reformability. This book reveals what happens to prisoners serving very long sentences in correctional facilities and what this should tell us about effective sentencing policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. The Lifers 3. Homicide 4. Awakening 5. Atonement 6. Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: John Irwin, Irwin John
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2009
• EAN: 9780415801980
• ISBN: 978-0-415-80198-0
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Criminology and Justice Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Social groups, Legal aspects of criminology, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Juvenile offenders, Criminal justice law, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Causes and prevention of crime, Criminology: legal aspects, Social groups, communities and identities