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Research on prisons prior to the prison boom of the 1980s and 1990s focused mainly on inmate subcultures, inmate rights, and sociological interpretations of inmate and guard adaptations to their environment, with qualitative studies and ethnographic methods the norm. In recent years, research has expanded considerably to issues related to inmates' mental health, suicide, managing special types of offenders, risk assessment, and evidence-based treatment programs. The Oxford Handbook of Prisons and Imprisonment provides the only single source that bridges social scientific and behavioral perspectives, providing graduate students with a more comprehensive understanding of the topic, academics with a body of knowledge that will more effectively inform their own research, and practitioners with an overview of evidence-based best practices. Across thirty chapters, leading contributors offer new ideas, critical treatments of substantive topics with theoretical and policy implications, and comprehensive literature reviews that reflect cumulative knowledge on what works and what doesn't. The Handbook covers critical topics in the field, some of which include recent trends in imprisonment, prison gangs, inmate victimization, the use and impact of restrictive housing, unique problems faced by women in prison, special offender populations, risk assessment and treatment effectiveness, prisoner re-entry, and privatization. The Oxford Handbook of Prisons and Imprisonment offers a rich source of information on the current state of institutional corrections around the world, on issues facing both inmates and prison staff, and on how those issues may impede or facilitate the various goals of incarceration.
Sommario
- Preface
- Chapter 1: The Imprisonment Boom of the Late 20th Century: Past, Present, and Future
- Mona Lynch and Anjuli Verma
- Chapter 2: Who Goes to Prison?
- Daniel P. Mears and Joshua C. Cochran
- Chapter 3: Mass Incarceration and Conditions of Confinement
- Leo Carroll, Sharon Calci, and Amber Wilson
- Chapter 4: Exploring Imprisonment across Cross-national Contexts
- Paul Mazerolle, John Rynne, and Samara McPhedran
- Chapter 5: Theories of Mass Incarceration
- Natasha A. Frost and Todd R. Clear
- Chapter 6: Subcultural Adaptations to Incarceration
- Ben Crewe and Ben Laws
- Chapter 7: The Real Gangbanging is in Prison
- Scott H. Decker and David Pyrooz
- Chapter 8: Women in Prison
- Emily M. Wright and Calli M. Cain
- Chapter 9: Impact of Incarceration on Families and Communities
- Nancy Rodriguez and Jillian J. Turanovic
- Chapter 10: The Two Cultures
- Alison Liebling and Deborah Kant
- Chapter 11: Measuring and Explaining Inmate Misconduct
- Benjamin Steiner
- Chapter 12: Prison Riots
- Bert Useem
- Chapter 13: Drugs and Prisons
- Michael Wheatley, John R. Weekes, Andrea E. Moser, and Kathleen Thibault
- Chapter 14: A General Model of Harm in Correctional Settings
- Nancy Wolff
- Chapter 15: Understanding the Contours of Prison Disciplinary Procedures
- James Marquart and Chad Trulson
- Chapter 16: The Effects of Administrative Segregation
- Paul Gendreau and Ryan M. Labrecque
- Chapter 17: A Comparison of British and American Policies for Managing Dangerous Prisoners
- Roy D. King
- Chapter 18: Adult Offender Assessment and Classification in Custodial Settings
- James Bonta and J. S. Wormith
- Chapter 19: Principles of Effective Intervention with Incarcerated Offenders
- Claire Goggin
- Chapter 20: Employment and Vocation Programs in Prison
- Paula Smith, Lindsey M. Mueller, and Ryan Labrecque
- Chapter 21: Treating Sex Offenders in Prison
- Devon L. L. Polaschek and Kristina M. Blackwood
- Chapter 22: The Multiple Faces of Reentry
- Susan Turner
- Chapter 23: Implementing Prison-Based Treatment
- James McGuire
- Chapter 24: Preventing Suicide in Detention and Correctional Facilities
- Robert D. Canning and Joel A. Dvoskin
- Chapter 25: Offenders with Mental Illness in Prison
- Sarah M. Manchak and Robert D. Morgan
- Chapter 26: The Problem of Incarcerating Juveniles with Adults
- Jodi Lane and Lonn Lanza-Kaduce
- Chapter 27: The Effect of Prisons on Crime
- Sarah Tahamont and Aaron Chalfin
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John Wooldredge is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. His research and publications focus on institutional corrections (crowding, inmate crime and victimization, disciplinary procedures, program effects on rule violations and recidivism, and correctional officers' behaviors), criminal case processing (sentencing and recidivism, and micro- versus macro- level extralegal disparities in case processing and outcomes), and methodological issues in each of these research areas.
Paula Smith is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include offender classification and assessment, correctional rehabilitation, the psychological effects of incarceration, program implementation and evaluation, the transfer of knowledge to practitioners and policy-makers, and meta-analysis. Dr. Smith has been involved in evaluations of more than 280 correctional programs throughout the United States.
Riassunto
The Oxford Handbook of Prisons and Imprisonment provides the only single source that bridges social scientific and behavioral perspectives, providing graduate students with a more comprehensive understanding of the topic, academics with a body of knowledge that will more effectively inform their own research, and practitioners with an overview of evidence-based best practices
