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Corrections /
Corrections looks at the correctional system and offers arguments for and against the practice of the laws and policies that comprise corrections, from parole and probation to imprisonment, to the application of the death penalty. The 20 included chapters, written by eminent scholars and experts in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2011.
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| Colección: | Key issues in crime and punishment.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Capital punishment/death penalty
- Clemency
- Cruel and unusual punishment
- Due process rights of prisoners
- Early release
- Free speech rights of prisoners
- Furlough and work-release programs
- Gangs and violence in prison
- Healthcare and medical assistance for prisoners
- Legal assistance for prisoners
- Life sentence
- Mentally ill and mentally challenged inmates
- Preventive detention
- Prison labor
- Prison overcrowding
- Prison privatization and contract facilities
- Punishment versus rehabilitation
- Religious rights
- Sex offender treatment
- Shaming penalties.