Hard Time : A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison
by Robert Johnson 2020-07-24 22:01:33
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Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated version of the highly successful text addressing the origins, evolution, and promise of America’s penal system. Draws from both ethnograph... Read more

Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated version of the highly successful text addressing the origins, evolution, and promise of America’s penal system.

  • Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison experience within both contemporary and historical contexts
  • Features first person accounts from male and female inmates and staff, revealing what it’s actually like to live and work in prison
  • Includes all-new chapters on prison reform and on supermax correctional facilities, including the latest research on confinement, long-term segregation, and death row
  • Explores a wide range of topics, including the nature of prison as punishment; prisoner personality types and coping strategies; gang violence; prison officers’ custodial duties; and psychological, educational, and work programs 
  • Develops policy recommendations for the future based on qualitative and quantitative research and evidence-based initiatives
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  • 9.5x6.6x0.8inches
  • 432
  • Wiley-Blackwell
  • August 1, 2016
  • English
  • 9781119082774
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