Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics (Paperback)

Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison. Except for the occasional expose, what happens to them is hidden from the rest of us. Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible? The contributors to this volume struggle with this central question and its broader and narrower ramifications. Some argue that despite the problems facing the practice of incarceration as punishment, a professional ethic for prison officers and staff can be constructed and implemented. Others, however, despair of imprisonment and even punishment, and reach instead for alternative ways of healing the personal and communal breaches constituted by crime. The result is a provocative contribution to practical and professional ethics.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	2001
Editors:	John Kleinig • Margaret Leland Smith
Contributors:	Heather Barr • Audrey J. Bomse • Derek R. Brookes • Todd R. Clear • William C. Heffernan • Zelma Weston Henriques • Michael Jacobson • Kenneth Kipnis
Dimensions:	230 x 154 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-0184-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7425-0184-1
Barcode:	9780742501843

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