Rethinking America's Correctional Policies (eBook)

Commonsense Choices from Uncommon Voices

Eileen M. Ahlin, Anne S. Douds (Autoren)

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2017
290 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3041-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book brings together the experiences of men who served time in prison with contemporary research on correctional policy. The authors examine how these two seemingly disparate perspectives complement each other to provide straightforward, commonsense solutions to address the current state of the corrections system.

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Commonsense Choices from Uncommon Voices:Rethinking America's Correctional Policies brings together the experiences of men who served time in prison with contemporary research on correctional policy. This work combines a voyeuristic desire to observe "e;evil"e; and the consequences of the system of punishment, with detached consideration of what those stories can tell us about who we are as a nation and how we treat those who have betrayed the social trust. The authors simultaneously examine first-person accounts of inmate experiences with the correctional system and what actually, works, in operation, to promote the rehabilitative and restorative models of justice so many of our policymakers espouse. Each chapter opens with a vignette, a recollection of an event or series of events, about an inmate's experience during the various phases of correctional processing. These first-hand accounts have been collected from men who served time in prison. These men's stories are examined in their own right, then extrapolated to a broader analysis of the underlying social and policy issues to which that vignette speaks. All chapters follow the same structure: (a) opening vignette about a former inmate; (b) analysis, which includes (i) identification of the underlying issue; (ii) reflection; and (iii) extrapolation to a larger policy issue; and (c) recommendations from the field for enacting practice and crafting policy more responsive to the identified issue.

Autor

Anne S. Douds is lecturer of criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg and former trial lawyer.Eileen M. Ahlin is assistant professor of criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg.

Inhalt

Section I: Pre-IncarcerationSection II: IncarcerationChapter Six. Vernon Can’t Read: Prison EducationChapter Seven: Doing the Schizophrenic Shuffle: Mental Health and Psychopharmacology Chapter Nine: Deliberate Indifference or Indifferently Deliberate: How the Slow Pace of Prison Health Care Killed MatthewSection III: Post-IncarcerationChapter Eleven: Walking Around Money and the Bus to NowhereChapter Twelve: Get a J-O-BChapter Thirteen: Burned Bridges Conclusion: RAP’ing Up

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.6.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Correctional officers • Corrections policy • Criminology • End of life rights in prison • Inmate dental care • Inmate experiences • Inmate health care • Pains of imprisonment • Plea-bargaining • Pre-incarceration experiences • Prison • Prisoner reentry • Prison programs • prison society • Prison Studies • Race relations
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3041-9 / 1498530419
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3041-5 / 9781498530415