Hard Time A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison Robert Johnson

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 9781119082774
• ISBN-13: 978-1119082774
• Author:  Robert Johnson (Author), Ann Marie Rocheleau (Author), Alison B. Martin (Author), Alison Liebling (Afterword), Francis T. Cullen (Foreword)

Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated version of the highly successful text addressing the origins, evolution, and promise of America’s penal system.

• Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison experience within both contemporary and historical contexts
• Features first person accounts from male and female inmates and staff, revealing what it’s actually like to live and work in prison
• Includes all-new chapters on prison reform and on supermax correctional facilities, including the latest research on confinement, long-term segregation, and death row
• Explores a wide range of topics, including the nature of prison as punishment; prisoner personality types and coping strategies; gang violence; prison officers’ custodial duties; and psychological, educational, and work programs 
• Develops policy recommendations for the future based on qualitative and quantitative research and evidence-based initiatives

Table of contents:

1: Crime, Prison, and the Case for Corrections

2: Modern Prisons in Historical Context

3: The Pains of Modern Imprisonment

4: Prisoner Deficits and Immature Coping

5: The Public Culture of the Prison: Violence

6: The Private Culture of the Prison: Living in Prison

7: Correctional Officers’ Public Custodial Agenda

8: Prison Officers’ Private Correctional Agenda

9: Supermax and the Overuse of Solitary Confinement

10: Reform

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