The Prison (Paperback, New edition)

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 "

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 1982
First published:	May 1982
Authors:	Gordon J. Hawkins
Dimensions:	278 x 154 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	225
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-32000-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > Prisons
LSN:	0-226-32000-6
Barcode:	9780226320007

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