Encountering Correctional Populations : A Practical Guide for Researchers by
While many researchers study offenders and offending, few actually journey into the correctional world to meet offenders face to face. This book offers researchers, practitioners, and students a step-by-step guide to effectively research correctional populations, providing field-tested advice for those studying youth and adults on probation, on parole, and in jails and prisons. The book addresses topics such as how to build rapport with offenders and those who monitor them; how to select from the many types of correctional data that can be collected; how to navigate the informed consent process and maintain research ethics; and how to manage the logistics of doing research. With personal stories, "what if" scenarios, case studies, and real-world tools like checklists and sample forms, the authors share methods of negotiating the complexities that researchers often face as they work with those behind bars.
Healing Corrections: The Future of Imprisonment by
Unlike critics who see the organizational cultures of prisons, jails, and community correction agencies as a problem that needs to be fixed with simple-sounding reforms, the author argues instead that these types of organizational cultures are adaptive and a source of strength that can be used to genuinely transform them.
Inferno : An Anatomy of American Punishment by
The United States punishes at a higher per capita rate than any other country in the world. In the last twenty years, incarceration rates have risen 500 percent. Sentences are harsh, prisons are overcrowded, life inside is dangerous, and rehabilitation programs are ineffective. Looking not only to court records but to works of philosophy, history, and literature for illumination, the author diagnoses all parts of a now massive, out-of-control punishment regime.
Locked down, Locked Out : Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better by
Through the stories of prisoners and their families, the author shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could foster real collective safety. She profiles community-based initiatives that successfully deal with problems that are both individual harm and larger social wrongs, through connection rather than isolation, moving toward a safer, freer future for all of us.
Prisoner Reentry Programs : Penetrating the Black Box for Better Theory and Practice by
The author explores how the challenges of housing, employment, and substance abuse interact and affect levels of relapse and recidivism. Housing and employment are important antecedents that shape participation in substance abuse treatment and relapse. In turn, these initial effects directly or indirectly influence recidivism. The findings highlight the need to further explore reentry challenges and lead to a number of theoretical, methodological, and policy implications.
Prison Industrial Complex for Beginners by
This graphic novel attempts to explain the fundamental components of what scholars, activists, and artists have identified as the Mass Incarceration movement in the United States.
Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory : Alienation and Power by
This book develops a new conception of prison infrastructure, organization, and policy to explore how workers and administrators are essential in the development of culture and morality within the prison environment.
The SAGE Guide to Writing in Corrections by
As part of the SAGE Guide to Writing series;The SAGE Guide to Writing in Corrections,1e, by Steven Hougland and Jennifer Allen, focuses on teaching students how to write in the academic setting while introducing them to a number of other professional writings specific to the correctional profession, such as the pre-sentence investigation report, contact sheets, court status reports, incident reports, rehabilitation and therapy. Covering correctional institutions as well as community corrections, the goal is to interweave professional and technical writing, academic writing, and information literacy, with the result being a stronger, more confident report writer and student in corrections. This text will be a concise supplemental writing book in courses focused on writing in the criminal justice discipline, report writing, or in introductory corrections courses. It is part of a series of books on this topic that will span criminal justice, policing, corrections, and research methods.
Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time by
This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in place by the world's largest jailer: the USA. Drawing on a growing body of academic and professional work, it describes in plain English the many competing theories of criminal justice.
