Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 459 g
How America's Rush To Incarcerate Creates More Violence
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 459 g
ISBN: 978-0-7619-1459-4
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
Limited critical evaluation on the societal effect of rising incarceration rates and construction of new facilities has been available. Crime is not at an alltime high in America or uniquely an American problem, yet no other country relies on incarceration as much as the United States. In this book, knowledgeable professionals show how current policy can create more violence instead of reducing it. The consensus of 26 contributors, disciplines including correctional administrators, physicians, criminologists, lawyers, and volunteers, is that mass incarceration propagates the violent subculture of prison on the streets. Editor John P. May, a practicing physician and leading expert in correctional health care, suggests that perhaps the best service people can do for some caught in the criminal justice system is to get them out as soon as possible, and the best service for society is to incarcerate fewer. Building Violence urges readers to rethink the incarceration policy, especially as it intersects with race, social class, gender, morality, technology, the media, profiteering, and legislated messages of prejudice, fear, and violence. This crisply written book is ideal for interdisciplinary study and reference in the fields of criminal justice, criminology, corrections, sociology, mental health, human rights, education, law, and administration.
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Introduction - John P May
PART ONE: THE SEARCH FOR SECURITY
The Connection between Crime and Incarceration - Alfred Blumstein
Today's Violence - Khalid R Pitts
Corrections without Correction - Stephen J Ingley
Prisoner Rehabilitation - Colleen R McLaughlin
Feeling Better but Getting Worse?
Criminalizing Addictions - Roger H Peters
Make 'Em Break Rocks - Kenneth L McGinnis
PART TWO: IMPURE JUSTICE
Legislating Barriers to Effective Solutions - William J Rold
An Indelicate Tool for a Complex Problem
The Racial Dynamics of Imprisonment - Marc Mauer
The Care and Feeding of the Correctional-Industrial Complex - Elizabeth Alexander
Examining 'Justice' in the Juvenile System - Mark I Soler
Adult Abdication - Bernardine Dohrn
The Misrepresentation of Juvenile Crime
PART THREE: CASUALTIES OF MASS INCARCERATION
The Poltics of Jailing - Juan Williams
Inappropriate Prison Populations - B Jaye Anno
The 'Epidemic' and 'Cultural Legends' of Black Male Incarceration - Tony L Whitehead
The Socialization of African American Children to a Life of Incarceration
Adult Time for Adult Crime - Miriam A Rollin
A Sound-Bite, Not a Sound Policy
Mass Incarceration - Robert L Cohen
A Public Health Failure
Detention of Migrants - Fernando Chang-Muy
Mental Illness behind Bars - Andrea Weisman
PART FOUR: THE CRUCIBLE OF VIOLENCE
Sanctioned Violence in American Prisons - Steve J Martin
Even Dogs Confined to Cages for Long Periods of Time Go Beserk - Corey Weinstein
Body and Soul - Joanne Mariner
The Trauma of Prison Rape
Feeding a Public Health Epidemic - John P May
Violence and Incarceration - Joanne Page
A Personal Observation
The Stigma of a Criminal History Record in the Labor Market - Shawn D Bushway
A Prisoner's Journey - Randy Blackburn
A Lesson from Another Country - Kim Marie Thorburn
Death Penalty - Stephen S Spencer
The Ultimate Violence
