Author : Clive Emsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Corrections
ISBN : 190342724X
The Persistent Prison
Clive Emsley
The Persistent Prison
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The Persistent Prison?
Maeve Winifred McMahon
Author : Maeve Winifred McMahon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802076890
The Persistent Prison? by Maeve Winifred McMahon Pdf
The Prison system is widely believed to be an immutable element of contemporary society. Many criminologists and sociologists of deviance believe that decarceration movements have failed to yield progressive reform, and that feasible alternatives to the prison system do not exist. Maeve McMahon challenges these views. Reconstructing the emergence of critical perspectives on decarceration, she examines analytical and empirical problems in the research. She also points out how indicators of community programs and other penalties serving as alternatives to prison have typically been overshadowed through critical focus on their effects in 'widening the net' of control. McMahon presents a detailed analysis of decreasing imprisonment, and of the part played by alternatives in this, during the postwar period in Ontario. Drawing from extensive documentary research, and from interviews with former correctional officials, she charts the changing climates of opinions, and socio-economic factors, which facilitated decarceration. By situating her analysis in the context of theoretical and political arguments about the possibility of decarceration, McMahon provides in her work a stimulus to the development of progressive penal politics not just in Canada, but in all western countries.
American Prison
Shane Bauer
Author : Shane Bauer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780735223592
American Prison by Shane Bauer Pdf
An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award * A New York Times Notable Book A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison's sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone. A blistering indictment of the private prison system, and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.
Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307819291
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault Pdf
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
The Oxford History of the Prison
Norval Morris,David J. Rothman
Author : Norval Morris,David J. Rothman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199879021
The Oxford History of the Prison by Norval Morris,David J. Rothman Pdf
The word "prison" immediately evokes stark images: forbidding walls spiked with watchtowers; inmates confined to cramped cells for hours on end; the suspicious eyes of armed guards. They seem to be the inevitable and permanent marks of confinement, as though prisons were a timeless institution stretching from medieval stone dungeons to the current era of steel boxes. But centuries of development and debate lie behind the prison as we now know it--a rich history that reveals how our ideas of crime and practices of punishment have changed over time. In The Oxford History of the Prison, a team of distinguished scholars offers a vivid account of the rise and development of this critical institution. Penalties other than incarceration were once much more common, from such bizarre death sentences as the Roman practice of drowning convicts in sacks filled with animals to a frequent reliance on the scaffold and on to forms of public shaming (such as the classic stocks of colonial America). The first decades of the nineteenth century saw the rise of the full-blown prison system--and along with it, the idea of prison reform. Alexis de Tocqueville originally came to America to write a report on its widely acclaimed prison system. The authors trace the persistent tension between the desire to punish and the hope for rehabilitation, recounting the institution's evolution from the rowdy and squalid English jails of the 1700s, in which prisoners and visitors ate and drank together; to the sober and stark nineteenth-century penitentiaries, whose inmates were forbidden to speak or even to see one another; and finally to the "big houses" of the current American prison system, in which prisoners are as overwhelmed by intense boredom as by the threat of violence. The text also provides a gripping and personal look at the social world of prisoners and their keepers over the centuries. In addition, thematic chapters explore in-depth a variety of special institutions and other important aspects of prison history, including the jail, the reform school, the women's prison, political imprisonment, and prison and literature. Fascinating, provocative, and authoritative, The Oxford History of the Prison offers a deep, informed perspective on the rise and development of one of the central features of modern society--capturing the debates that rage from generation to generation on the proper response to crime.
How to Eradicate Sovietism from Ukrainian Prisons. Amendments to the Internal Prison and Pre-Trial Detention Centers Rules in the Light of International Standards
Vadym Chovgan
Author : Vadym Chovgan
Publisher : Human Rights Publisher (Kharkiv)
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786177391363
How to Eradicate Sovietism from Ukrainian Prisons. Amendments to the Internal Prison and Pre-Trial Detention Centers Rules in the Light of International Standards by Vadym Chovgan Pdf
This publication is the first comprehensive attempt to familiarize the public with the problems of Internal Rules of Ukrainian prisons. It contains proposals of amendments to the Internal Pre-Trial Detention Center Rules, as well as to the Internal Prison Rules (Part I and Part II). The proposals are intended to implement international standards, such as recommendations of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. The author points out the shortcomings of both current Rules, which are considered to be leftovers of the Soviet Union, and should therefore be changed in the light of modern approaches to prisoners’ rights. The publication also contains draft amendments to the Internal Pre-Trial Detention Center Rules, as well as to Internal Prison Rules developed by the Ministry of Justice in August 2017. Their translations are unofficial and made for information purposes only (Part III and Part IV).
The Federal Prison System - 1964
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045471211
The Federal Prison System - 1964 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf
The Federal Prison System, 1964
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on National Penitentiaries
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on National Penitentiaries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Crime
ISBN : LOC:00186793808
The Federal Prison System, 1964 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on National Penitentiaries Pdf
Health and Incarceration
National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration
Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309287715
Health and Incarceration by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration Pdf
Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration in the United States has skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, both historically and in comparison to that of other developed nations. At far higher rates than the general population, those in or entering U.S. jails and prisons are prone to many health problems. This is a problem not just for them, but also for the communities from which they come and to which, in nearly all cases, they will return. Health and Incarceration is the summary of a workshop jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences(NAS) Committee on Law and Justice and the Institute of Medicine(IOM) Board on Health and Select Populations in December 2012. Academics, practitioners, state officials, and nongovernmental organization representatives from the fields of healthcare, prisoner advocacy, and corrections reviewed what is known about these health issues and what appear to be the best opportunities to improve healthcare for those who are now or will be incarcerated. The workshop was designed as a roundtable with brief presentations from 16 experts and time for group discussion. Health and Incarceration reviews what is known about the health of incarcerated individuals, the healthcare they receive, and effects of incarceration on public health. This report identifies opportunities to improve healthcare for these populations and provides a platform for visions of how the world of incarceration health can be a better place.
The Deviant Prison
Ashley T. Rubin
Author : Ashley T. Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108484947
The Deviant Prison by Ashley T. Rubin Pdf
A compelling examination of the highly criticized use of long-term solitary confinement in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary during the nineteenth century.
Understanding Prison Staff
Jamie Bennett,Ben Crewe,Azrini Wahidin
Author : Jamie Bennett,Ben Crewe,Azrini Wahidin
Publisher : Willan
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134004270
Understanding Prison Staff by Jamie Bennett,Ben Crewe,Azrini Wahidin Pdf
The past decade has seen dramatic growth in every area of the prison enterprise. Yet our knowledge of the inner life of the prison remains limited. This book aims to redress this research gap by providing insight into various aspects of the daily life of prison staff. It provides a serious exploration of their work and, in doing so, will seek to draw attention to the variety, value and complexity of work within prisons. This book will provide practitioners, students and the general reader with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the contemporary issues and concerns facing prison staff.
In the Shadow of Prison
Helen Codd
Author : Helen Codd
Publisher : Willan
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134006793
In the Shadow of Prison by Helen Codd Pdf
This book provides an up-to-date, accessible introduction to the relationship between families, prisons and penal policies in the United Kingdom. It explores current debates in relation to prisoners and their families, and introduces the reader to relevant theoretical approaches. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book incorporates perspectives drawn from criminology, sociology, social work and law. The book includes: a current exploration of key aspects of the consequences of imprisonment for prisoners and their families an assessment of the role of current prison policies and practices in promoting and maintaining family relationships a summary of the current law in relation to prisoners and their families, with reference to the relevant legislation and recent case law.
Welsh prisoners in the prison estate
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Welsh Affairs Committee
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Welsh Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780215034366
Welsh prisoners in the prison estate by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Welsh Affairs Committee Pdf
The Committee undertook this inquiry to address concerns about the imprisonment of Welsh prisoners outside Wales. At present there are only four prisons in Wales, all in the South, and there is little provision for juveniles and no prisons for women. The overcrowding means that Welsh prisoners have a reduced chance of serving their sentence near home and reduces the chances of successful resettlement on release. The Committee believe there should be new prison places in North Wales, separate provision for young offenders and a new approach to women prisoners along the lines suggested by Baroness Corston. The report also address concerns about support services for mental illness amongst prisoners, the amount of Welsh language provision and education services.
Illiterate Inmates
Rosalind Crone
Author : Rosalind Crone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192570574
Illiterate Inmates by Rosalind Crone Pdf
The nineteenth-century prison, we have been told, was a place of 'hard labour, hard board, and hard fare'. Yet it was also a place of education. Schemes to teach prisoners to read and write, and sometimes more besides, can be traced to the early 1800s. State-funded elementary education for prisoners pre-dated universal and compulsory education for children by fifty years. In the 1860s, when the famous maxim, just cited, became the basis of national penal policy, arithmetic was included by legislators alongside reading and writing as a core skill to be taught in English prisons. By c.1880 every prison in England used to accommodate those convicted of criminal offences had a formal education programme in which the 3Rs - reading, writing, and arithmetic - were taught, to males and females, adults and children alike. Not every programme, however, had prisoners enrolled in it. Illiterate Inmates tells the story of the emergence, at the turn of the nineteenth century, of a powerful idea - the provision of education in prisons for those accused and convicted of crime - and its execution over the century that followed. Using evidence from both local and convict prisons, the study shows how education became part of the modern penal regime. While the curriculum largely reflected that of mainstream elementary schools, the delivery of education, shaped by the penal environment, created an entirely different educational experience. At the same time, philosophies of imprisonment which prioritised punishment and deterrence over reformation undermined any socially reconstructive ambitions. Thus the period between 1800 and 1899 witnessed the rise and fall of the prison school in England.
A Guide to Prisons and Penal Policy
Rachel Vipond
Author : Rachel Vipond
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781447365426
A Guide to Prisons and Penal Policy by Rachel Vipond Pdf
Understanding prisons and the policies surrounding them is of fundamental importance to students and practitioners of criminology and related fields. This concise and accessible guide offers a compendium of key information, theories, concepts, research and policy, presenting a rounded and critical overview of the prison system in England and Wales. Covering the historical and contemporary context of prisons, the text guides the reader through the work of prison officers, a tour of international prisons and how prison life is experienced by different groups, such as women. Focusing on the experiences of stakeholder groups and the themes of power, legitimacy and rehabilitation, the book concludes with an overview of the future challenges for prisons. Each chapter includes key learning features: - end of chapter questions; - definitions of key terms and concepts; - examples and illustrative case studies; - learning outcomes; - summary boxes of major research studies and further reading.
