Soft Bound Version for Corrections in the 21st Century

Frank Schmalleger (Autor)

Loseblattwerk

2016 | 8th edition
McGraw-Hill Education (Verlag)
978-1-260-11073-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Corrections in the 21st Century uses a practical approach to introduce students to the ideas and practices characteristic of modern corrections while equipping them with the skills necessary to succeed in the field. Its approach to corrections includes a thorough description of correctional ideology, a comprehensive overview of correctional practice, and the development of personal skills applicable to the corrections field. The Connect course for this offering includes SmartBook, an adaptive reading and study experience which guides students to master, recall, and apply key concepts while providing automatically-graded assessments.

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Autor

Frank Schmalleger, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus atthe University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Dr. Schmalleger holds a bachï¿elors degree from the University of Notre Dame and both a masï¿ters and a doctorate in sociology from The Ohio State University with a special emphasis in criminology. From 1976 to 1994, he taught criminal justice courses at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, serving for many years as a tenured full professor. For the last 16 of those years, he chaired the Department of Sociï¿ology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice. As an adjunct professor with Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Schmalleger helped develop a graduate program in security management and loss prevention that is curï¿rently offered on U.S. military bases around the world. He taught courses in that curriculum for more than a decade, focusing primarily on computer and information security. Dr. Schmalleger also has taught in the New School for Social Research online graduate program, helping build the worlds first electronic classrooms for criminal justice distance learning. Dr. Schmalleger is the author of numerous articles and many books, including Criminal Justice Today (Prentice Hall, 2021), Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction (Prentice Hall, 2020),Criminology Today (Prentice Hall, 2021), and Criminal Law Today (Prentice Hall,2016). He is founding editor of the journal Criminal Justice Studies (formerly The Justice Professional) and has served as imprint advisor for Greenwood Publishing Groups criminal justice reference series. Dr.Schmalleger is also the creator of a number of award-winning websites (including the former cybrary.info and crimenews.info). He is a member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the American Society of Criminology, and the Society of Police Futurists International (where he is a founding member). Schmallegers author page on Amazon. com can be viewed atamazon.com/author/frankschmalleger. Follow him on Twitter @schmalleger.

Inhalt

PART 1 Introduction to Corrections1 Corrections: An Overview2 Corrections Today: Evidence-based Corrections and Professionalism3 Sentencing: To Punish or to Reform?PART 2 Community Corrections4 Probation: How Most Offenders Are Punished5 Intermediate Sanctions: Between Probation and IncarcerationPART 3 Institutional Corrections6 Jails: Way Stations Along the Justice Highway7 Prisons Today: Change Stations or Warehouses?8 Parole: Early Release and ReentryPART 4 The Prison World9 The Staff World: Managing the Prison Population 10 The Inmate World: Living Behind Bars11 The Legal World: Prisoners’ Rights12 Special Prison Populations: Prisoners Who Are Substance Abusers, Who HaveHIV/AIDS, Who Are Mentally Challenged, and Who Are Elderly Endnotes EN-1Glossary G-1Photo Credits PC-1Case Index CI-1Subject Index SI-1

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.04.2019
• Verlagsort: OH
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 218 x 279 mm
• Gewicht: 955 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-260-11073-7 / 1260110737
• ISBN-13: 978-1-260-11073-9 / 9781260110739
• Zustand: Neuware