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Product details:
- ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0134762657
- ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0134762654
- Author: Harry E. Allen; Edward J. Latessa
The field’s best-selling text for over 40 years, Corrections in America: An Introduction addresses the current state of Corrections. With a tradition of comprehensive, student-friendly coverage, the text covers nearly all aspects of Corrections – from its history, ideologies, and legal issues, to prisons and correctional clients. It combines current and past research, theory and practice, and real-world examples to offer readers a strong foundation of field knowledge. The 15th edition analyzes rapid, significant changes affecting Corrections, and projects their future impact.
Corrections in America : An Introduction , 15 th Edition, is also available via Revel™, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience.
Table of contents:
- Chapter 1 Early History (2000 B.C. to A.D. 1800)
- Objectives
- Overview
- What is the Role of Corrections?
- Shared Writing: Overarching Goal of Corrections
- Redress of Wrongs
- Retaliation
- Fines and Punishments
- Early Codes
- Babylonian and Sumerian Codes
- Crime and Sin
- Roman and Greek Codes
- The Middle Ages
- Punishment
- Capital and Corporal Punishment
- Deterrence
- Emergence of Secular Law
- Early Prisons
- Workhouses
- Shared Writing: Corporal Punishment
- The Age of Enlightenment and Reform
- Montesquieu and Voltaire: The French Humanists
- Bentham and the Hedonistic Calculus
- Correctional Profile 1.1 John Howard
- John Howard
- Houses of Correction, Workhouses, and Gaols
- Transportation Systems
- Deportation to the American Colonies and Australia
- Hulks: A Sordid Episode
- Early Cellular Prisons
- The Maison de Force at Ghent and the Hospice of San Michele
- William Penn and the “Great Law”
- The Walnut Street Jail
- Role of Corrections Summarized
- Summary
- Summarize the Definition, Mission, and Role of Corrections
- Summarize Early Responses to Crime Prior to the Development of Prisons
- Describe How Secular Law Emerged
- Summarize Sentencing Goals and Primary Punishment Philosophies
- Outline the Development of the Prison
- Key Words
- Review Questions
- Application Case Studies
- Group Discussion Questions
- Homework Assignments
- Suggested Readings
- Endnotes
- Chapter 2 Prisons (1800 to the Present)
- Objectives
- Overview
- What is the Emerging Role of Corrections?
- The Pennsylvania System
- The Auburn System
- Discipline at Auburn
- Prison Competition
- Economics Wins Out
- Prison Rules
- Communication Inhibition and Solitary Confinement
- Shared Writing: Prison Competition
- Change in the Wind
- Maconochie and Crofton: A New Approach
- Maconochie and the Indeterminate Sentence
- Crofton and the Irish System
- The Reformatory Era (1870–1910)
- Shared Writing: Prison Goods
- Shared Writing: Point/Counterpoint Video—The Harm Reduction Approach to Drug Abuse
- Point/Counterpoint Video: The Harm Reduction Approach to Drug Abuse
- Post–Civil War Prisons
- The Twentieth Century and the Industrial Prison
- The Period of Transition (1935–1960)
- Prison Riots Explode
- The Modern Era
- New Emphases Emerge in Corrections
- Internally Sought Reform
- The Prison Population Boom
- Summary
- Summarize the Definition, Mission, and Role of Corrections
- Compare and Contrast the Pennsylvania and Auburn Systems
- Explain Why the Auburn System Became the Dominant Prison Design
- Describe Prison Development from the Reformatory Era to the Modern Era
- Key Words
- Review Questions
- Application Case Studies
- Group Discussion Questions
- Homework Assignments
- Suggested Readings
- Endnotes
- Chapter 3 Correctional Ideologies: The Pendulum Swings
- Objectives
- Overview
- Impacts of Ideology
- Conflicting Correctional Ideologies
- Correctional Practice 3.1 Contrasting Ideologies
- Shared Writing: Correctional Ideologies
- Shared Writing: Reducing Stigma
- Shared Writing: Point/Counterpoint Video—Radical Theory
- Point/Counterpoint Video: Radical Theory
- The Punishment Ideology
- Retribution
- Deterrence
- Incapacitation
- Selective Incapacitation
- The Effect of Punishment
- The Rehabilitation Ideology
- The Prevention Ideology
- The Role of the Environment
- The Pendulum Swings
- Restorative Justice
- Balanced and Restorative Justice Philosophy
- The Balanced Approach and Its Application
- Effects of Public Opinion of Crime Control
- Contemporary Correctional Policies
- Contemporary Corrections
- Current Trends
- Summary
- Summarize the Definition, Mission, and Role of Corrections
- Summarize Sentencing Goals and Primary Punishment Philosophies
- Explain How Public Opinion about Crime Affects Crime Control Policy
- Summarize Issues Related to Correctional Policy
- Describe and Illustrate Contemporary Corrections in the Nation
- Key Words
- Review Questions
- Application Case Studies
- Suggested Group Discussions
- Homework Assignments
- Suggested Readings
- Endnotes
- Chapter 4 The Sentencing and Appeals Process
- Objectives
- Overview
- The Correctional Funnel
- Plea Bargaining
- The Sentencing Decision
- Rapid Change in Sentencing Processes
- New Goals
- Reform Options
- Reform Effects
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