In 2003, well over half a million jailed Americans will leave prison and return to society. Largely uneducated, unskilled, often without family support, and with the stigma of a prison record hanging over them, many if not most will experience serious social and psychological problems after release. Fewer than one in three prisoners receive ...
Alternatives to prison and incarceration are explored in this volume. The contributors discuss intensive probation supervision, electronic monitoring, home confinement, shock incarceration, day reporting centres, the use of fines, split sentencing and the controversial issues surrounding alternative punishments. In conclusion, they look at the ...
America's prison population has quadrupled in the 1980s-1990s, 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, ...
This reader brings together information on the issues, data and programmes that comprise community corrections. It provides an overview of the changing face of community corrections and the debates about it, followed by commentary on and assessments of various programmes.
Two of the most prominent criminologists working today bring together twenty-six of the nation's top experts in the sociology, psychology, and economics of predatory crime. They deliver an inclusive and authoritative account of the latest findings on the most persistent and controversial questions in this complex issue. "Crime" explores reality ...
This two-part guide on probation and parole in the United States presents the background and future of those vital divisions of corrections. The first section explores the many aspects of probation. Readers will learn about probation data sources, the history of probation, modern sentencing practices, the current probation population ...
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