Table of Contents

Preface CHAPTER 1. THE ROLE OF PUNISHMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INCARCERATION Pieter Spierenburg: The Disappearance of Public Executions John H. Langbein: The Historical Origins of the Sanction of Imprisonment for Serious Crime David J. Rothman: The Invention of the Penitentiary Michel Foucault: Complete and Austere Institutions Nicole Hahn Rafter: Prisons for Women, 1790-1980 CHAPTER 2. THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF INCARCERATION Susan Sturm: The Legacy and Future of Corrections Litigation Phillip J. Cooper: Prisons: The Cruel and Unusual Punishment Controversy James W. Marquart and Ben M. Crouch: Judicial Reform and Prisoner Control: The Impact of Ruiz v. Estelle on a Texas Penitentiary John J. DiIulio, Jr.: Judicial Intervention: Lessons from the Past CHAPTER 3. CONTEMPORARY CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS AS PEOPLE PROCESSING ORGANIZATIONS Elaine M. Lord: A Prison Superintendent's Perspective on Women in Prison Richard A. McGee, George Warner, and Nora Harlow: The Special Management Inmate David J. Cooke: Prison Violence: A Scottish Perspective Geoffrey Hunt, Stephanie Riegel, Tomas Morales, and Dan Waldorf: Changes in Prison Culture: Prison Gangs and the Case of the "Pepsi Generation" Susan Philliber: The Brother's Keeper: A Review of the Literature on Correctional Officers Nancy C. Jurik: Organizational Barriers to Women Working as Corrections Officers in Men's Prisons John J. DiIulio, Jr.: The Prison as a Constitutional Government CHAPTER 4. CONTEMPORARY PRISONS AS PROCESS: CORRECTIONAL INTERVENTION Peter M. Brien and Allen J. Beck: HIV in Prisons Michael Kirby: AIDS Recommendations and Prisons in Australia Theodore M. Hammet and Lynne Harrold, with the assistance of Joel Epstein: Tuberculosis in Correctional Facilities Tim Brennan: Classification for Control in Jails and Prisons Helen M. Annis: Effective Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems: What Do We Know? Timothy J. Flanagan and Kathleen Maguire: A Full Employment Policy for Prisons in the United States: Some Arguments, Estimates, and Implications T.A. Ryan: Literacy Training and Reintegration of Offenders Freidrich Losel: Effective Correctional Programming: What Empirical Research Tells Us and What It Doesn't Timothy J. Flanagan: Discipline CHAPTER 5 THE MODERN JAIL Darrell K. Gilliard and Allen J. Beck: Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 1996 John Irwin: The Jail John A. Backstrand, Don C. Gibbons, and Joseph F. Jones: Who Is in Jail? An Examination of the Rabble Hypothesis John M. Klofas: The Jail and the Community CHAPTER 6. FUTURE ISSUES AND TRENDS Charles H. Logan: Criminal Justice Performance Measures for Prisons Douglas C. McDonald: Public Imprisonment by Private Means: The Re-emergence of Private Prisons and Jails in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia Michael Tonry: Racial Disproportion in U.S. Prisons Jerome H. Skolnick: What Not to Do About Crime -- The American Society of Criminology 1994 Presidential Address Kenneth Adams: The Bull Market in Corrections Kenneth Adams, Timothy J. Flanagan, and James W. Marquart: The Future of the Penitentiary

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"An excellent collection of classic and current readings on prisons, punishment, and the problems and issues facing corrections."--Richard Lawrence, St. Cloud State University