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Jail: Managing the Underclass in American Society - Softcover

Irwin, John; Simon, Jonathan

 
9780520277342: Jail: Managing the Underclass in American Society
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520277341 ISBN 13: 9780520277342
Verlag: University of California Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin argues that rather than controlling the disreputable, jail disorients and degrades these people, indoctrinating new recruits to the rabble class. In a forceful conclusion, Irwin addresses the issue of jail reform and the matter of social control demanded by society. Reissued more than twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Jonathon Simon, The Jail remains an extraordinary account of the role jails play in America’s crisis of mass incarceration.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Irwin (1929 - 2010) was known internationally as an expert in the American prison system. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California Berkeley and taught as a professor at San Francisco State University. He is the author of The Felon (UC Press), Scenes, Prisons in Turmoil, It's About Time: America's Imprisonment Binge (with James Austin), Lifers: Seeking Redemption in Prison and The Warehouse Prison: Disposal of the New Dangerous Class.

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"Irwin is a skilled and brilliant ethnographer and the chapters are full of rich, subjective data clearly linked to human misery, and set in a context of powerlessness." –Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

"Irwin’s discussion of the dynamics of jail life makes this a very important book that should be read by all students of social control." –American Journal of Sociology

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"Irwin is a skilled and brilliant ethnographer and the chapters are full of rich, subjective data clearly linked to human misery, and set in a context of powerlessness." Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

"Irwin s discussion of the dynamics of jail life makes this a very important book that should be read by all students of social control." American Journal of Sociology

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520277341
ISBN 13 
9780520277342
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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