Despite lethal explosions of violence from within and critical
assaults from without, it seems certain that prisons will continue
to exist for the foreseeable future. Gordon Hawkins argues that
certain key issues which attend the use of imprisonment as a penal
method must be dealt with realistically. Beginning with a
discussion of the ideology of imprisonment and the principal lines
of criticism directed at it, Hawkins examines such issues as the
prisonization hypothesis (the theory that prisons serve as a
training ground for criminals), the role of the prison guard, work
in prisons, and the use of prisoners as research subjects for
medical experiments. He also deals with the prisoners' rights
movement and its implications for the future of prison
administration. Hawkins not only makes specific recommendations for
reform, he also carefully appraises the barriers which obstruct
their implementation.
"Hawkins devotes a large portion of this relatively short book to a
discussion of some of the really crucial policy activities that
tend to stifle meaningful reform and then goes on to tell how at
least some of these policies can be altered. . . . The book
concludes with a chapter devoted to a discussion of impediments to
change that should be required reading for all serious students of
penology."--"Choice"
"Hawkins has added a much needed down-to-earch analysis of prison.
. . . This is not a pessimistic book. It is a realistic book. It
avoids the pitfall of utopian and single-factor solutions to an
extremely complex problem."--Graeme R. Newman," Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science "
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