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Clear and comprehensive, ""Prisons"" examines the state of U.S. prisons and related issues. It focuses on the development of prisons in the United States and how the competing goals of punishment and rehabilitation have shaped the evolution of corrections. The financial costs of running prisons and the mixed record of private prisons are examined, and laws and legislation relating to issues of incarceration are reviewed.
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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
Jeffrey Ferro received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a certificate of litigation from the UCLA Extension Attorney Assistant Program, in association with the UCLA School of Law. He is currently a paralegal with the Juvenile Services Division of the Los Angeles County Office of the Public Defender, where he develops and writes social histories of defendants and detailed sentencing reports for felony trial attorneys. Author of Juvenile Crime and Sexual Misconduct and the Clergy, two volumes in the Library in a Book series, he has contributed to several works in the area of social issues, including crime, prisons and jails, and gun control.
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U.S. prisons are highly dangerous places for inmates and prison staff alike. Housing a mix of criminal offenders from drug abusers to murderers while ensuring the safety of staff members and protecting the rights of inmates is a complex and daunting challenge undertaken each day in prisons nationwide. That challenge is heightened as more prisoners enter correctional facilities. In 2002, some 1.4 million inmates were held in federal and state prisons, an 82 percent increase since 1990. When factored in with jail inmates, that amounted to the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Clear and comprehensive, Prisons examines the state of U.S. prisons and related issues. It focuses on the development of prisons in the United States and how the competing goals of punishment and rehabilitation have shaped the evolution of corrections. An overview presents statistics on U.S. prisons and explores the issues behind those statistics, including racial disparity among prisoners and the causes of recidivism. The financial costs of running prisons and the mixed record of private prisons are examined, and laws and legislation relating to issues of incarceration are reviewed. Appendixes include excerpts from pertinent regulations and statistics in table and graph form.
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Prisons : Library in a Book
Verlag:
Facts On File, Incorporated, 2005
ISBN 10: 0816060355
ISBN 13: 9780816060351
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Prisons : Library in a Book
Verlag:
Facts On File, Incorporated, 2005
ISBN 10: 0816060355
ISBN 13: 9780816060351
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Hardcover
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
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Zustand: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Artikel-Nr. 39867944-75
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