Reforming punishment : psychological limits to the pains of imprisonment / Craig Haney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haney, Craig.

Series:

Law and public policy

The law and public policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imprisonment--United States.

Imprisonment.

Imprisonment--Psychological aspects.

United States.

Prisons--United States.

Prisons.

Punishment--United States.

Punishment.

Physical Description:

xxii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2006]

Summary:

The author of this hard-hitting book argues that the U.S. justice and prison system suffers from fatal structural and legal flaws that cause pain to the imprisoned and ultimately increase crime. He presents evidence that problems in prisons--which include overcrowding, violence, and sexual assault--are the result of poor design, lack of funding, and an outdated understanding of individual punishment that does not acknowledge the context in which crimes are perpetrated.

Contents:

Introduction: Humane values, psychology, and the pains of imprisonment

Human nature and the history of imprisonment

Spreading pain : the punitive state and the state of the prisons

Attribution error as crime control and prison polict

Context matters : social history

Surviving the social context of prison

overcrowding and the situational pathologies of prison

Special needs prisoners in extremis

Prison law and the disregard of context

Limiting prison pain : a psychologically informed corrections agenda

Toward a rational prison policy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1591473179

OCLC:

60515219