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The results from the United States National Crime and Justice
Survey conducted in 1995 are analyzed in this volume. The survey
provided a comprehensive national assessment of attitudes, and the
topics covered include: fear of crime; gun control; capital
punishment; and juvenile crime. Using the data collected,
distinguished criminologists report on the development and current
status of public opinion on these issues. They also present an
analysis of the implications of the data taken during the survey.
With recent sentencing law changes at the state and national level,
the United States will continue to use long-term confinement more
than any other nation in the world. In this authoritative yet
accessible volume, scholars, correctional authorities, researchers,
and prisoners examine the use of long- term incarceration as a
response to crime, the effects of long- term incarceration, and the
strategies used by long-term inmates to adjust to confinement.
Long-Term Imprisonment explores the prison experience of both male
and female inmates and discusses the correctional management
challenges posed by long-term incarceration. The core of this
collection, edited by Timothy Flanagan, is a set of articles first
published in The Prison Journal, the official journal of the
Pennsylvania Prison Society and the oldest journal in the field of
corrections. These articles are complemented with research reports
on the effects of long-term confinement, a comprehensive analysis
of long-term inmates currently confined in American and Canadian
prisons, and essays written by long-term prisoners. If you are
interested in the use and operation of prisons, and in the impact
of these institutions on the people confined within them, this book
is for you. In addition to students studying imprisonment, the book
informs correctional administrators and policymakers about the
nature of long-term inmate population and the impact of long-term
imprisonment. "Timothy Flanagan began studying the effects of
long-term incarceration over two decades ago when he conducted one
of the first major studies of prisoners serving long sentences.
Since then, many changes have occurred in corrections and sentences
practices that have greatly increased sentence lengths and the
number of prisoners serving long sentences. The collection of the
essays contained in Long-Term Imprisonment represents the most
comprehensive, up-to-date, and definitive review of literature
regarding the effects of long-term incarceration on prisoners.
Flanagan provides readers with a variety of perspectives of long-
term imprisonment by including articles written by prison
researchers, corrections officials, and long-term prisoners. This
book is must reading for anyone interested in life in prisons and
the unique world of the long-term prisoner." --Kevin N. Wright,
Binghamton University
This book should be made a part of any college level library that
features holdings in social sciences. . . . Americans View Crime
and Justice presents a national public opinion survey and its
results on the issues. These edited results of a survey conducted
in 1995 examine such issues as gun control, capital punishment, and
juvenile crime, offering public opinion along with the analyses of
a panel of criminologists. --The Midwest Book Review Readable and
carefully edited, Americans View Crime and Justice reports and
analyzes results from the recent National Crime and Justice Survey
(NCJS), the richest and most wide-ranging investigation of public
opinion on crime and justice issues in more than a decade.
Conducted in June 1995, the survey features responses from 1,000
adults in the United States on now-volatile issues such as fear of
crime, gun control, capital punishment, juvenile crime, and
additional related topics of national concern. A distinguished
panel of criminologists analyzes the collected data in this volume
to present a comprehensive report on the development and current
status of public opinion on these timely issues. Divided into three
sections-context and framework; findings; and opinion, policy, and
science-this authoritative volume also analyzes the implications of
the survey data. Providing interesting insights and timely
quantification of Americans' view of crime and justice, this volume
offers a unique view of public opinion particularly important to
the work of researchers, law enforcement personnel, policy makers,
public officials, and students of criminology and criminal justice,
law, and political science.
With recent sentencing law changes at the state and national level,
the United States will continue to use long-term confinement more
than any other nation in the world. In this authoritative yet
accessible volume, scholars, correctional authorities, researchers,
and prisoners examine the use of long- term incarceration as a
response to crime, the effects of long- term incarceration, and the
strategies used by long-term inmates to adjust to confinement.
Long-Term Imprisonment explores the prison experience of both male
and female inmates and discusses the correctional management
challenges posed by long-term incarceration. The core of this
collection, edited by Timothy Flanagan, is a set of articles first
published in The Prison Journal, the official journal of the
Pennsylvania Prison Society and the oldest journal in the field of
corrections. These articles are complemented with research reports
on the effects of long-term confinement, a comprehensive analysis
of long-term inmates currently confined in American and Canadian
prisons, and essays written by long-term prisoners. If you are
interested in the use and operation of prisons, and in the impact
of these institutions on the people confined within them, this book
is for you. In addition to students studying imprisonment, the book
informs correctional administrators and policymakers about the
nature of long-term inmate population and the impact of long-term
imprisonment. "Timothy Flanagan began studying the effects of
long-term incarceration over two decades ago when he conducted one
of the first major studies of prisoners serving long sentences.
Since then, many changes have occurred in corrections and sentences
practices that have greatly increased sentence lengths and the
number of prisoners serving long sentences. The collection of the
essays contained in Long-Term Imprisonment represents the most
comprehensive, up-to-date, and definitive review of literature
regarding the effects of long-term incarceration on prisoners.
Flanagan provides readers with a variety of perspectives of long-
term imprisonment by including articles written by prison
researchers, corrections officials, and long-term prisoners. This
book is must reading for anyone interested in life in prisons and
the unique world of the long-term prisoner." --Kevin N. Wright,
Binghamton University
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