Download or read book Prisons written by Ashley G. Blackburn and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisons: Today and Tomorrow, Third Edition uses current case studies and research to present balanced and comprehensive coverage of prisons and prisoners. Featuring chapters contributed by leading authorities on the modern prison system, this text examines the many purposes of prisons-punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation-and examines controversial issues such as whether imprisonment actually deters crime or merely serves as punishment.
Download or read book Prisons written by Joycelyn M. Pollock and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2006 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisons Today and Tomorrow, Second Edition uses current case studies and research to present balanced and comprehensive coverage of prisons and prisoners. Featuring chapters contributed by leading authorities on the modern prison system, this text examines the many purposes of prisons--punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation--and examines controversial issues such as whether imprisonment actually deters crime or merely serves as punishment.
Download or read book Corrections Today and Tomorrow written by U.s. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual assault in the nation's prisons continues to be a complex problem of concern to both prison officials and policy-makers. To date, fe research studies have investigation sexual violence in specific correctional institutions, and their results cannot be extrapolated to the nation prisons population due to how limited the studies were.
Download or read book Prisons Today and Tomorrow written by Joycelyn M. Pollock and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisons: Today and Tomorrow, Second Edition uses current case studies and research to present balanced and comprehensive coverage of prisons and prisoners. Featuring chapters contributed by leading authorities on the modern prison system, this text examines the many purposes of prisons-punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation-and examines controversial issues such as whether imprisonment actually deters crime or merely serves as punishment.
Download or read book Yesterday s Tradition Today s Reality Tomorrow s Challenges written by American Correctional Association. Congress of Correction and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Im Prisons Today and Tomorrow Pb written by Pollock and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Corrections written by Jeanne B. Stinchcomb and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Edition is available for online and hybrid courses and is also customizable in inexpensive paperback forms with other materials instructors may wish to assign their students. The text and its companion website has been designed for use in online and hybrid courses as well as in conventional "bricks and mortar" classes. The text is also customizable in inexpensive paperback format, instructors may select only those chapters which they wish to assign.
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Download or read book Corrections in America written by Harry E. Allen and published by Macmillan College. This book was released on 1995 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains review questions & statistical tables & graphs.
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Download or read book Special Problems in Corrections written by Jeffrey Ian Ross and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sets out to identify the most pressing issues affecting the correctional system today. Maintaining a solutions-focus, the book organizes problems into two distinct categories: those impacting the convicts and correctional facilities and those impacting the correctional officers and administrators. It examines long-standing, and emerging issues from a critical perspective, grounding discussion in empirical research and current events. Using the consistent voice of a single author, the book offers a no nonsense approach to explaining the problems of correctional officers, correctional managers, prisoners, and the public.
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