America's prison population has quadrupled in the past two decades,
with an enormous impact on families, communities, correctional
officers, policy makers, and prisoners themselves. The use of
imprisonment as a means of social control has come to the fore in
many public debates--whether the issues be deterrence,
incapacitation, public spending, overcrowding, or the effects of
imprisonment on the offenders' later lives. "Prisons" addresses
these and related topics, offering thought-provoking analyses of
particular issues that deserve greater consideration, such as the
effects of imprisonment on the children of inmates, the
relationship between prisons and the surrounding communities,
medical care in prisons, prisoner suicide and coping, adult
correctional treatment, and prison management trends, and related
topics.
Featuring articles by Alfred Blumstein and Allen Beck, Joan
Petersilia, Anthony Bottoms, Douglas McDonald and others, "Prisons"
provides reliable, up-to-date, and comprehensive overviews of
policy issues and research developments concerning prisons and
imprisonment. This timely collection of essays will benefit
scholars, administrators, and policy makers alike.
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