Buch(gedruckt)2021

Corrections in the 21st century

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Abstract

Introduction to corrections. Corrections: an overview -- Corrections today: evidence-based corrections and professionalism sentencing: to punish or to reform? -- Community corrections. Probation: how most offenders are punished -- Intermediate sanctions and community corrections: between probation and incarceration -- Institutional corrections. Jails: way stations along the justice highway -- Prisons today: change stations or warehouses? -- Parole: early release and reentry -- The prison world. The staff world: managing the prison population the inmate world: living behind bars -- The legal world: prisoners' rights -- Special prison populations: prisoners who are substance abusers, who have HIV/AIDS, who are mentally challenged, and who are elderly.