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Criminals --- Imprisonment --- Rehabilitation --- Criminals - Rehabilitation - United States --- Imprisonment - United States

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This text builds on and extends some of the contemporary issues of women in prison, minorities, and the historical path to modern prisons, as well as the social influences on prison reform.

Imprisonment - United States. --- Imprisonment -- United States. --- Prisoners - United States. --- Prisoners -- United States. --- Prisons - United States. --- Prisons -- United States. --- Imprisonment --- Prisons

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"Indefinite is the first major ethnographic study of American jails since the advent of racialized mass incarceration. The author was confined in a southern California county jail system during which time, he conducted what he calls an organic ethnography of jail life. The resulting study is an investigation of the vagaries of jail living, the relationship between custodial deputies and penal residents, the endurance strategies residents employed to protect their emotional selves from being overwhelmed by the nature of jail punishment, and consequences of extremes of vulnerability, uncertainty, and penal time. Indefinite toggles between what is peculiar to jail time and what is familiar in broader social life to develop general concepts, sensitizing schemes, and theories about social life that expand beyond the specifics of jail without reducing jail to a mere case study"--

Imprisonment. --- Jails. --- Prisoners. --- Jails - United States --- Prisoners - United States --- Imprisonment - United States --- Jails --- Prisoners --- Imprisonment

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Imprisonment --- Social aspects --- Confinement --- Incarceration --- Corrections --- Detention of persons --- Punishment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Prisons --- School-to-prison pipeline --- Imprisonment - United States. --- Imprisonment - Social aspects - United States.

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McShane explains the controversies and issues surrounding not only the development of corrections systems in America but the most enduring problems they face. She utilizes a systems view that incorporates the external and internal factors that effect how prisons operate. Attempts to resolve the continuing political, economic, and philosophic dilemmas of incarceration involve complex motives and competing interests that are described in detail. Related legislation, law cases, and social trends are also analyzed. Students will be aided by study questions, supporting web site information and refe

Corrections -- United States. --- Imprisonment -- United States. --- Prisoners -- United States. --- Prisons -- United States. --- Punishment -- United States. --- Prisons --- Corrections --- Imprisonment --- Punishment --- Prisoners --- Legal status, laws, etc