Building violence : how America's rush to incarcerate creates more violence /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: May, John P., Pitts, Khalid R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [2000]
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Table of Contents:
  • The connection between crime and incarceration / Alfred Blumstein
  • Today's violence / Khalid R. Pitts
  • Corrections without correction / Stephen J. Ingley
  • Prisoner rehabilitation : feeling better but getting worse? / Colleen R. McLaughlin
  • Criminalizing addictions / Roger H. Peters
  • Make 'em break rocks / Kenneth L. McGinnis
  • Legislating barriers to effective solutions : an indelicate tool for a complex problem / William J. Rold
  • 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 Soler
  • Adult abdication : the misrepresentation of juvenile crime / Bernardine Dohrn
  • The politics of jailing / Juan Williams
  • Inappropriate prison populations / B. Jaye Anno
  • The "epidemic" and "cultural legends" of Black male incarceration : the socialization of African American children to a life of incarceration / Tony L. Whitehead
  • Adult time for adult crime : a sound bite, not a sound policy / Miriam A. Rollin
  • Mass incarceration : a public health failure / Robert L. Cohen
  • Detention of migrants / Fernando Chang-Muy
  • Mental illness behind bars / Andrea Weisman
  • Sanctioned violence in American prisons / Steve J. Martin
  • Even dogs confined to cages for long periods of time go berserk / Corey Weinstein
  • Body and soul : the trauma of prison rape / Joanne Mariner
  • Feeding a public health epidemic / John P. May
  • Violence and incarceration : a personal observation / JoAnne Page
  • 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 : the ultimate violence / Steven S. Spencer.