Key Correctional Issues - Softcover

Muraskin, Roslyn

 
9780135154267: Key Correctional Issues

Synopsis

For courses in Introduction to Corrections and Issues in Corrections.

 

This concise book discusses a broad range of correctional issues and explores them using an engaging text/reader format. Ranging from super max facilities to inmate reentry, its precise coverage explains the interactions that exist in the area of correctional facilities from both a historical and a twenty-first century view. This new edition offers over ten new essays and features compelling contributions from leaders in the field.

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Key Correctional Issues, second edition, presents a collection of new and updated original readings highlighting the most important issues facing the correctional system today, including:

  •  The History of Corrections
  • Goals of the Correctional System
  • Prisoner Re-Entry
  • Suicide
  • Religion
  • Mental Illness
  • Correctional Technology
  • Correctional Alternatives
  • Constitutional Rights of Inmates
  • Building Design
  • Women and Minorities Behind Bars
  • The Death Penalty
  • Terrorism and Corrections
  • The Future of Corrections

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9780130358615: Key Correctional Issues

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ISBN 10:  0130358614 ISBN 13:  9780130358615
Publisher: Pearson, 2004
Softcover