Prisons
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Prisons
（Crime and justice / edited by Michael Tonry and Norval Morris ; with the support of the National Institute of Justice, v. 26）
The University of Chicago Press, 1999
- : cloth
- : pbk
Available at 25 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
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, overcrowding or the effects of imprisonment on the offenders' later lives. This work addresses these and related topics, offering analyses of particular issues that deserve greater consideration, such as the effects of imprisonment on the children of inmates, the relationship between prisons and the surrounding communities, medical care in prisons, prisoner suicide and coping, adult correctional treatment, prison management trends and related topics.
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