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A research-to-practice text offering a biopsychosocial approach to
treating criminal offenders Correctional Mental Health is a
broad-based, balanced guide for students who are learning to treat
criminal offenders in a correctional mental health practice.
Featuring a wide selection of readings, this edited text offers a
thorough grounding in theory, current research, professional
practice, and clinical experience. It emphasizes a biopsychosocial
approach to caring for the estimated 20% of all U.S. prisoners who
have a serious mental disorder. Providing a balance between
theoretical and practical perspectives throughout, the text also
provides readers with a big-picture framework for assessing current
correctional mental health and criminal justice issues, offering
clear strategies for addressing these challenges.
Prisons occupy a central position in the criminal justice system of all the developed nations. Much is known about prisons, their administration, their effectiveness and their problems. More is known now than at any time in the past about how prisons work and how prisoners view their experiences of incarceration. However, little attention has been given to comparing and contrasting prison systems in different countries. This collection does just that, bringing together leading prison scholars from Italy, Australia, the US, and the UK to produce a set of essays which offer a broad view of recent developments in imprisonment theory and practice. Topics covered include: privately run prisons; the crisis in prisons in several countries; Russian prisons after Perestroika; human rights and prisons in Europe; women in prisons; and racial disproportion in US prisons. Contributors: Richard Sparks, Douglas C. McDonald, Massimo Pavarini, Roy D. King, Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins, Michael Tonry, Ken Pease, Pat Carlen, Rod Morgan, Malcolm Evans, Mike Maguire
This second volume of Lord Windlesham's seminal work Responses to Crime concentrates on the making of penal policy between the first post-war Criminal Justices Act in 1948 and the passage of the Criminal Justice Act 1991. The central role of government, the Home Office in particular, is brought out, as are the diverse sources of policy proposals and the influence on ministers, legislators, and civil servants. It is an insider's account, the author having had experience as a minister at the Home Office and for Northern Ireland, as well as Leader of the House of Lords. From 1982-88 Lord Windlesham was Chairman of the Parole Board, and became President of Victim Support in 1992. He is currently Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford.
The British public today endure some of the world's worst crime
levels. According to the government's own estimates, 132 million
indictable crimes alone are committed every year, the vast majority
of which go unrecorded and undetected. Burglary is rife; street
crime burgeoning and violence is escalating to unprecedented
levels. Fear of crime means that many of us - especially the
vulnerable and the elderly - have become prisoners in our own
homes, leaving predatory criminals free to roam our streets. In
this meticulously researched and passionately argued study of the
contemporary British justice system, David Fraser offers a sobering
indictment of post-war British governments, who have not only
overseen but also fostered this spectacular and terrifying rise in
crime. Almost without exception, governments - and the civil
servants and academics who abet them - have sought to persuade us
that criminals are victims of society and that they are best
rehabilitated within the community rather than punished inside
prisons. So pervasive has this 'anti-prison propaganda' become that
few of whatever political complexion are now prepared to question
its truth. However, as David Fraser cogently argues, community
supervision and probation orders have simply left criminals free to
reoffend, while the criminal justice system's near obsession with
the well-being of criminals has come to override its concerns for
their victims, whose interests and sufferings are callously
ignored. Moreover, he suggests successive governments' failure to
carry out what is their first duty - to protect their citizens -
threatens to undermine our democracy, as more and more people -
exasperated by the blatant injustice of the justice system - take
the law into their own hands. Britain has indeed become 'a land fit
for criminals'.
Based on over thirty years of research of government sentencing
policy and work within the criminal justice system, David Fraser
demonstrates that Britain's increased reliance on alternatives to
imprisonment has allowed violent crime to flourish. The number of
life-threatening attacks has increased rapidly over the last forty
years but justice officials have masked this development within a
blizzard of deceptive statistics. Anti-prison groups tell the
public that violent offenders can be managed in the community under
supervision and that prison makes offenders worse. Contrary to this
misleading propaganda, the evidence presented here informs us that
criminals under probation supervision as an alternative to
imprisonment commit hundreds of the most serious crimes every year,
while the government's figures - which are kept away from the
public eye - make it clear that long prison sentences are our best
protection against violent crime. Licence to Kill demonstrates that
the death penalty was an effective deterrent to homicide but does
not argue for its reintroduction. Instead, by acknowledging its
effectiveness, David Fraser argues the case for a re-vamped
sentencing system that is as effective as was the fear of the
hangman's noose. By providing readers with an alternative
perspective, he invites them to consider the idea of a new criminal
sentencing framework.
*Provides a clear, yet panoramic analysis of how the concept of
social control has been used by different theoretical traditions in
the social sciences.
*Connects contemporary changes in areas such as policing, penal
systems and surveillance, with wider and deeper changes in the
constitution of society.
*Employs empirical examples to illustrate key conceptual
points.
*Develops an innovative argument about the nature and scope of
social control in late-modern societies.
Understanding Social Control investigates how the concept of social
control has been used to capture the ways in which individuals,
communities and societies respond to a variety of forms of deviant
behaviour. In so doing, the book demonstrates how an appreciation
of the meanings of the concept of social control is vital to
understanding the dynamics and trajectories of social order in
contemporary late-modern societies. Through an analysis of a range
of different modes of social control including: policing,
imprisonment, surveillance, risk management, audit and
architecture, this book explores how and why the mechanisms and
processes of social control are changing. The book will be of
interest to those studying courses in criminology and the social
sciences, researchers with interests in the sociology of deviance
and social control, and readers who want to understand the social
forces that are shaping the world they live in.
Civilian Internment in Canada examines abuse of the civil rights
and liberties of tens of thousands of Canadians and Canadian
residents via internment from 1914 to the present day. This ongoing
story spans both war and peacetime and has affected people from a
wide variety of political backgrounds and ethno-cultural
communities, bequeathing a complex legacy for survivors and their
descendants. Despite the well-known impounding of tens of thousands
of Japanese, Ukrainians, assorted eastern Europeans, Germans, and
Italians as 'enemy aliens' during the two World Wars, civilian
internment in this country has not been widely discussed,
particularly in comparative ways. Indeed, there has been a
propensity to sweep these events under the proverbial rug, keeping
them out of the national discourse. Civilian Internment in Canada
brings together senior scholars in the field of internment and
civil liberties studies with emerging scholars, graduate students,
community members, teachers, public historians, artists, former
internees, descendants of internees, and redress activists to
examine the processes and consequences of civilian internment
during real and perceived wartime contexts, ranging from the Great
War to the Cold War to the 'War on Terror.' It demonstrates the
ways in which 'shared authority' between scholars and subjects can
both reshape our understanding of crucial episodes in Canada's
history and bring a sense of vibrancy and immediacy to the all-too
current question of civil liberties and minority rights in today's
security state.
Generation after generation has come up with new forms of
punishment to inflict on those guilty (and sometimes innocent) of
crimes against property and person. From the stocks and pillory, to
flogging, ducking and transportation to foreign lands, this volume
brings to life those turbulent times of long ago. Even after
suffering the ultimate in punishments - death - the bodies of the
convicted could still be punished. Stories of dissection, when the
body of the deceased criminal was publicly carved up, or gibbeting,
when the corpse would be coated in tar and canvass and displayed in
an iron frame on a pole 30ft high, are gruesome in the extreme.
Pity poor John Spencer, whose rotting remains were gibbeted for
over sixty years until the cage was finally blown down in a storm.
Richly illustrated, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into
the dark world of punishments through the centuries and will appeal
to all those wishing to discover more about Nottinghamshire's
intriguing past.
"A lucid, smart, engaging, and accessible introduction to the
impact of lynching photography on the history of race and violence
in America. "--Grace Elizabeth Hale, author of "Making Whiteness:
The Culture of Segregation in America, 1890-1940"
"With admirable courage, Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith examine
lynching photographs that are horrifying, shameful, and elusive;
with admirable sensitivity they help us delve into the meaning and
legacy of these difficult images. They show us how the images
change when viewed from different perspectives, they reveal how the
photographs have continued to affect popular culture and political
debates, and they delineate how the pictures produce a dialectic of
shame and atonement."--Ashraf H. A. Rushdy, author of "Neo-Slave
Narratives and Remembering Generations"
"This thoughtful and engaging book offers a highly accessible yet
theoretically sophisticated discussion of a painful, complicated,
and unavoidable subject. Apel and Smith, employing complementary
(and sometimes overlapping) methodological approaches to reading
these images, impress upon us how inextricable photography and
lynching are, and how we cannot comprehend lynching without making
sense of its photographic representations."--Leigh Raiford,
co-editor of "The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory"
"Our newspapers have recently been filled with photographs of
mutilated, tortured bodies from both war fronts and domestic
arenas. How do we understand such photographs? Why do people take
them? Why do we look at them? The two essays by Apel and Smith
address photographs of lynching, but their analysis can be applied
to a broader spectrum of images presenting ritual orspectacle
killings."--Frances Pohl, author of "Framing America: A Social
History of American Art"
A comprehensive and critical review of corrections, Correctional
Contexts: Contemporary and Classical Readings, Fifth Edition,
traces the history and development of corrections and punishment as
it has evolved in the U.S. over the past few centuries. This text
presents both classical and contemporary articles that cover the
history of corrections in the U.S.; discusses how various facets of
the system operate today; and considers where we as a country may
be headed regarding the confinement, control, and treatment of our
correctional populations. Each chapter opens with an introduction
and concludes with study questions.
From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious
prison camps like Andersonville and Elmira, prisoners seemed to be
everywhere during the American Civil War. Yet there is much we do
not know about the soldiers and civilians whose very lives were in
the hands of their enemies. Living by Inches is the first book to
examine how imprisoned men in the Civil War perceived captivity
through the basic building blocks of human experience--their five
senses. From the first whiffs of a prison warehouse to the taste of
cornbread and the feeling of lice, captivity assaulted prisoners'
perceptions of their environments and themselves. Evan A. Kutzler
demonstrates that the sensory experience of imprisonment produced
an inner struggle for men who sought to preserve their bodies,
their minds, and their sense of self as distinct from the
fundamentally uncivilized and filthy environments surrounding them.
From the mundane to the horrific, these men survived the daily
experiences of captivity by adjusting to their circumstances, even
if these transformations worried prisoners about what type of men
they were becoming.
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With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman
barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase
of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with
her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous
federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the
well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424--one of
the millions of people who disappear "down the rabbit hole" of the
American penal system. From her first strip search to her final
release, Kerman learns to navigate this strange world with its
strictly enforced codes of behavior and arbitrary rules. She meets
women from all walks of life, who surprise her with small tokens of
generosity, hard words of wisdom, and simple acts of acceptance.
Heartbreaking, hilarious, and at times enraging, Kerman's story
offers a rare look into the lives of women in prison--why it is we
lock so many away and what happens to them when they're there.
Praise for "Orange Is the New Black"
"Fascinating . . . The true subject of this unforgettable book is
female bonding and the ties that even bars can't unbind."--"People"
(four stars)
"I loved this book. It's a story rich with humor, pathos, and
redemption. What I did not expect from this memoir was the
affection, compassion, and even reverence that Piper Kerman
demonstrates for all the women she encountered while she was locked
away in jail. I will never forget it."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author
of "Eat, Pray, Love"
"This book is impossible to put down because Kerman] could be you.
Or your best friend. Or your daughter."--"Los Angeles Times"
"Moving . . . transcends the memoir genre's usual
self-centeredness to explore how human beings can always surprise
you."--"USA Today"
"It's a compelling awakening, and a harrowing one--both for the
reader and for Kerman."--Newsweek.com
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The paths of a secret paramour, a jilted lover and a reluctant
hangman cross in one fateful winter week in Galway, 1885 James
Berry was the notorious hangman who ended the lives of over 100
criminals in Victorian Britain and Ireland. Tortured by nightmares
as he tried to come to terms with the toll his gruesome work took
on him, he played a central role in some of the crimes of the
century, including the hanging of William Bury, the man suspected
of being Jack the Ripper. The Hangman Who Came to Galway focuses on
a winter week in Irish history where Berry was tasked with bringing
to a conclusion the case of two notorious murders in Galway,
keeping readers transfixed as they journey with this fascinating
character through nineteenth-century Ireland in all its gruesome
glory.
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