America's jails : the search for human dignity in an age of mass incarceration /
A look at the contemporary crisis in U.S. jails with recommendations for improving and protecting the dignity of inmates Twelve million Americans go through the U.S. jail system on an annual basis. Jails, which differ significantly from prisons, are designed to house inmates for short amounts of tim...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Alternative criminology series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Degradation and disorientation: a glimpse into the Cook County jail
- What is the purpose of a jail?
- A matter of dignity
- Why do we stigmatize inmates? disgust, contempt, and fear in American jails
- What can we do? responding to a crisis
- Conclusion: can we reform the jail?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.