Long-Term Imprisonment : Policy, Science, and Corrrectional Practice.

The use of long-term imprisonment as a response to crime, the effects of long-term incarceration and the strategies used by inmates to adjust to confinement are the focus of this volume. The book explores the prison experience from the male and the female perspective and discusses the correctional m...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Flanagan, Dr. Timothy J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1995.
Subjects:
Prison sentences > Government policy > United States.
Older prisoners > Government policy > United States.
Older prisoners > Care > United States.
Prison administration > United States.
Peines d'emprisonnement > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Prisonniers âgés > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Prisonniers âgés > Soins > États-Unis.
Prisons > Administration > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Prison administration
Prison sentences > Government policy
Gevangenschap.
Gevangenisstraf.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part one. Perspectives on long-term imprisonment
  • part two. Long-term prisoners on long-term imprisonment
  • part three. The effects of long-term imprisonment
  • part four. Adaptation and survival among long-term inmates
  • part five. Correctional responses and the management of long-term prisoners.

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