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Hard time : understanding and reforming the prison / Robert Johnson.
LIBRA HV9471 .J64 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Robert, 1948-
- Series:
- Contemporary issues in crime and justice series
- The Wadsworth contemporary issues in crime and justice series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisons--United States.
- Prisons.
- United States.
- Prison psychology.
- Prison administration--United States.
- Prison administration.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 344 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, [2002]
- Summary:
- A seminal work, this is a unique book in that it provides personal accounts from prisoners telling what it is really like to live in prison as well as historical and contextual information. It is the personal stories, which provide a realistic and poignant look at what life is like as a prisoner, that are the strength of this book.
- Contents:
- I The Enduring Pains of Imprisonment
- 1 The Roots of Imprisonment 1
- A Predilection for Prisons 3
- The Case for Decent Prisons 6
- Prison America 16
- Prison as a Natural Means of Punishment 18
- Prison as a Natural Means of Quarantine 21
- The Plague and the Penitentiary 23
- 2 Modern Prisons in Historical Context 32
- Penitentiaries 32
- The Big House 40
- The Correctional Institution 50
- 3 The Pains of Modern Imprisonment 59
- The Civilization of Punishment 60
- Civilized Prisons: Pain Delimited 75
- II Living and Working in Prison
- 4 Mature Coping: The Challenge of Adjustment in Contemporary Prisons 82
- Mature Coping 83
- Prison Adjustment and Personal Reform: Reconciling Public and Private Cultures 100
- General Dynamics of Adjustment 110
- 5 Prowling the Yard: The Public Culture of the Prison 126
- The Male Convict Culture of Violence 128
- Prison Violence and the State-Raised Convict 141
- The Pathos of Prison Violence 152
- A Note on the Convict World of Women's Prisons 153
- 6 Living in Prison: The Private Culture of the Prison 163
- Living in Prison 165
- The Ecology of Prison Survival 168
- A Day in the Life 174
- Prison Life on One's Own Terms: Challenges and Solutions 180
- More than Survival 193
- 7 To have and to Hold: The Prison Officer's Public (Custodial) Agenda 201
- The Prison Guard as Hack 202
- Alienation and Its Consequences 207
- Custodial Violence in Perspective 227
- 8 To Protect and to Serve: The Prison Officer's Private (Correctional) Agenda 235
- Correctional Authority: A Matter of Human Service 235
- The Correctional Officer at Work 242
- Human Service in Perspective 255
- III Prison Reform
- 9 Better Living in the Prison Community: Prison Ecology and Prison Reform 265
- Prison Ecology and Prison Reform 270
- 10 Better Living in the Free Community: Prison Programs and the Cultivation of Coping Competence 291
- Collaborative Training 297
- Coping: Innovative and Promising Programs 300
- Collaborative Training and Contractual Programs 305
- Prisoner as Consumer of Program Services 309
- Getting Out and Staying Out: Transition Support 310
- Nurturing Hope and Reforming Criminals 314
- Reconciliation 318.
- Notes:
- Errata slip inserted.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0534507174
- OCLC:
- 47073117
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