Hard Time A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Johnson, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Crime, Prison, and the Case for Corrections
  • A Predilection for Prisons
  • Prison America
  • Incarcerating men and women of color
  • No escaping prison
  • The goals of prison punishment
  • A Case for Decent Prisons
  • Decent prisons and mature coping
  • General dynamics of adjustment
  • Decent prisons as a human right
  • Notes
  • References
  • 2 Modern Prisons in Historical Context
  • American Prisons before the Penitentiary
  • Penitentiaries
  • Models of reformative penitentiary quarantine
  • Women and minorities in the penitentiary
  • The southern plantation prison
  • Reformatories
  • The Big House
  • Women and minorities in the Big House
  • The Big House: Repression and its discontents
  • The decline of the Big House
  • The Correctional Institution
  • Models of correctional facilities
  • Prison violence
  • Deinstitutionalization and the increase in mentally ill inmates
  • Supermax prisons
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3 The Pains of Modern Imprisonment
  • Pain Amelioration in Prisons: Three Stages
  • Living with Deprivation
  • Loss of liberty
  • Deprivation of autonomy
  • Deprivation of goods and services
  • Boredom
  • Deprivation of heterosexual contact
  • Missing family
  • Disrespect
  • Deprivation of security
  • Pain and Harm
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4 Prisoner Deficits and Immature Coping
  • Immature Coping
  • Limited cognitive and interpersonal skills
  • Denial
  • Poor self-control
  • Defective socialization
  • Lack of empathy
  • Prisoner Types
  • Predatory convicts
  • State-raised convicts
  • Institutionalized inmates
  • The mentally ill
  • Exceptions to immature coping: Square johns and long-termers
  • Dysfunctional Adaptations to Imprisonment
  • Reconciling Public and Private Inmate Cultures
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5 The Public Culture of the Prison: Violence
  • The Nature of Violent Prisoners
  • Predatory convicts and state-raised youth
  • Gang violence
  • Hypermasculinity in prisons
  • Fear, street culture, and the campaign for respect
  • The mentally ill
  • The Nature of Violent Prisons
  • Violence exacerbated by prison administration and conditions
  • Relationships between inmates and officers
  • Situational Violence
  • A Note on Violence in Womens Prisons
  • Notes
  • References
  • 6 The Private Culture of the Prison: Living in Prison
  • Living in Prison
  • A day in a life in prison
  • The Ecology of Prison Survival
  • Prison Life, Prison Niches
  • Types of prison niches
  • Coping Strategies for Living in Prison
  • General coping strategies
  • Coping adaptations unique to prison
  • Coping strategies for lifers and long-termers
  • More Than Survival
  • Notes
  • References
  • 7 Correctional Officers Public Custodial Agenda
  • Correctional Officer as Hack
  • The persistent image
  • Prevalence of correctional officer violence

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